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will bear in mind that twenty-four English sovereigns, from the 
Norman Conquest to the death of Charles I., reigned Zess than 
600 years. 
The Makeas were held in great veneration by their vassals. In 
1858 I asked a serf why he looked aside when interrogated by 
Makea. The reply was—‘ Did not my father tell me never to 
look Makea in the face, lest the regal glance should devour me ?” 
The angry glance of a high chief was believed to induce that 
frightful disease, /zpus, or cancer of the nose and face. So, too, 
the thieving of food by the slaves who waited on them. 
The mythical account of the origin of the regal name Makea is 
this: “Atea* married Papa. To them were born Rongo and 
Tane; also Ruenuku,} Tu-the Great (Tu-nui), Tangaroa, Teuira 
(=the lightning), and Aa(=cyclone). The sign of royalty being 
the (bow] of) intoxicating pepper, shouts ever following (the king).” 
“ Now Rongo and Tane? said, Let us name our son The Saliva 
(kea) of our mouths and the aching of our heads. Hence the 
name Makea.” 
“Ma” is a mere prefix, so that this regal title may be rendered 
The Saliva and Head-ache of the gods ! 
Many have asked me whether I have discovered in the Hervey 
Group any trace of a prior Negrillo people. My answer is, None 
whatever. Indeed, I believe the idea of a black race formerly 
overrunning the Eastern Pacific to be a pure fiction. When 
Karika landed on Rarotonga he found a few JZaori, or brown, 
people from Iva (=Nukuiva), originally from Avaiki. Their 
chief was named Ata. These Maories were all—or nearly§ all— 
slain by Karika. A d/ack aboriginal race was never heard of in 
the Hervey Group. Some accounts assert that Ou and Ruariki 
were the chiefs of these brown people from Iva, and that xo¢ one 
was spared by Karika. It is well known that the Rarotongans 
from time immemorial were addicted to killing and eating women ; 
at Mangaia the rule was to spare women. 
On the west of Rarotonga is now settled the smaller and, but 
for Christianity, doomed tribe of Puaikura. In 1823 Mr. 
Williams found Tinomana,|| the eighteenth in direct succession 
from Karika, swaying its destinies. Allowing, as with the 
Makeas, 25 years to the reign of each of that line of chiefs, we get 
only 450 years. My own impression is that one or two links in this 
genealogy are irrecoverably lost, owing to the perpetual slaughter 
of their leading men—a slaughter which ceased only on the 
acceptance of Christianity by the rulers of Rarotonga in 1823. 
I infer, then, that Rarotonga was colonised by Karika and 
Tangiia 600 years before the discovery of the island by Mr. 
* Vutea or Avatea, 7.e., Noon. 
+ The Ruanuka of Mangaian mythology. 
ft Primary male gods of Polynesia. 
§ The young women were spared as slave wives for the victors. 
|| This same Tinomana was living in 1852, when I first visitel Rarotonga He was a most 
interesting chief, and of commanding presence, 
