036 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 
4, Buanga .. Budding (a female). 
5. Vaerua-rau ... Two-hundred-spirits. Son of Buanga. His son, 
Rau-ue, was made principal (the sixth) king of Mangaia. 
Deified after his violent death. 
35 (Ouayey Sas .. The-ancient. Slain and eaten by his hereditary 
foes in Mautara’s time. 
7. Kai-au paku... Kingly-office-holder I. Also called Tuki-rangi = 
Sky-striker. Son of Oito. 
8. Tenio-pakari ... The-strong-toothed. 
9. Kanune. In the days of Mautara. Slain by Raumea. 
10 Te-ivi-rau .... Two-hundred-bones (7.e., relatives). Drowned at 
sea when in chase of Paoa. 
11. Kai-au II. .. Kingly-office-holder LI. 
12. Numangatini. Appointed shore-king by Pangemiro in a.p. 1814. 
When (in 1821) Teao was deposed, he became sole king of 
Mangaia. The final word and collective kingly authority were 
then vested by the conquering chiefs in Numangantini alone. 
In the incessant fighting of Ngauta’s younger days the kingly 
family was almost exterminated by their hereditary enemies, 7.¢., 
the Teipe and Tongan tribes, then masters of the island. Only a 
royal female (Buanga) and her infant son (Vaeruarau) survived. 
Even Vaeruarau was eventually murdered at the suggestion (not 
by the hand) of Ngauta. 
Even the shore-king, after he had been formally seated on the 
sacred sandstone at O-Rongo, was so sacred (¢apuz) in the estima- 
tion of the men of past generations that even “the lord of 
Mangaia” approached him, not without an offering, oz all fours / 
Yet, when the charm of peace had been broken by the wanton 
shedding of human blood, this sanctity (tapu) departed, and the 
shore-king went to his ancestral lands in the interior without 
any special reverence being paid to him. So sacred were the 
persons of the kings that no part of their bodies might be tattooed, 
nor could they take part in actual warfare. 
I would earnestly warn all students of these pages of the danger 
of laying too great stress upon the meaning of these royal names. 
In mythology nothing is more important than the study of names, 
as showing how naturally the myth originated in the minds of 
“the wise men” of past ages; but in Azsfory (which this un- 
doubtedly is) nothing can be more misleading. 
As to the origin of the people, the universal tradition of the 
Hervey Islanders points to Avaiki (= Hawaiki, Hawaii, Savaiki, 
Savaii) as the original home of their ancestors. Sometimes this 
region is called “the night” (te po), z.e., the place where the sun 
hides itself at night, or, in other words, “the west.” | Their 
ancestors are said to have ‘come up,” 7.e., to Aave sailed eastward. 
When a man died his spirit returned to Avaiki, z.e., the original 
home of their ancestors in the region of sunset. 
