634 PROCEEDINGS OF ECTION G. 
26. Makea Takau* ... ... Makea-Twenty,* now living. 
There can be no doubt that the first list is the complete one. 
In this latter account there is no reference to the dual kingship 
at “Araitetonga.” It is confessed that Rarotongan Zzstory (so 
far as Makea is concerned) begins with Karika ; but there is. 
lying before me a list of purely mythological names, given 
as ancestors of the Karika who sailed from Tonga, Rotuma, 
Avaiki (=Savaii), and Manuka (the Manu’a cluster of three 
islands, forming the eastern portion of the Samoan group. Some- 
times Tau, the largest of these three islands, is called by Hervey 
Islanders Manuka). It is believed that Karika made his final 
start for the south-east and Rarotonga from the island of Tau or 
Manw’a, where the marae of ‘“Salia” = “ Karika” may still be seen. 
The place is called “ Rarotonga.” Tau is 700 miles north-west of 
the island of Rarotonga. 
Karika’s great double canoe, in which he made eight wonderful 
voyages, had two masts, and carried (tradition says) 170 people 
(okoitu). He gave to the queen-island of the Hervey Group, the 
home of his descendants, its name ‘“ Rarotonga” =‘ (in memory 
of) Western Tonga.” Karika selected as his followers the fleetest 
runners and the bravest men of the various islands he touched at, 
z.¢., of Tonga, Rotuma, Savaii, and Tau. 
It is said that on the island of Rotuma is still shown the 
“footprint of Salia”=Karika. And at the famous marae of 
Opoa, in the island of Raiatea, “the stone-seat of Aria” = 
Karika 
IT.—Kings of Mangaia, Hervey Group. 
The island of Mangaia was discovered by Captain Cook in 1777. 
The sign of installation of the kings of Mangaia was to be 
formally seated by the temporal lord, in the presence of the 
leading under-chiets, upon “ the sacred sandstone” (fe kea tnamoa) 
in Rongo’s marae (O-Rongo) on the seashore, facing the setting 
sun. This was ¢#e/r equivalent of our coronation in Westminster 
Abbey. The special duty of a king was by rhythmical prayerst 
to Great Rongo to keep away evil-minded spirits (pa tuarangi) 
that might injure the island. For this end the principal} king 
(te artki patuta) lived in the interior, in the midst of abundance, 
in the sacred district of Keia. His prayers (harakia) were 
supposed to keep away bad spirits coming from the eas¢. On the 
barren seashore, at O-Rongo, lived the secondary king (¢e ariki 
pa tat), who kept away bad spirits coming from the west. Besides 
* In the memory of “twenty ” heads obtained at Mangaia by Makea’s warriors generations. 
ago. It isan ancient name. See my “Savage Life in Polynesia,” page 17. 
+ Of great antiquity. 
t Also called “the praying king” (te ariki karakia). 
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