330 Migrations in the Pacific Ocean. 
whose names are given is twenty seven. The first was Teatwmoana, a 
name which means ‘ Lord of the Sea.’ From him, the history says, 
‘all the inhabitants of the land are descended. He had no father, or 
perhaps he was a foreigner.’ From him the line continues unbroken 
till the ninth king, Anua ; he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Toronga, 
the name of whose father was not known. He was not, it appears, 
acknowledged by many of the chiefs, and a civil war ensued. One of 
the principal rebels named Uma was worsted, and, it is said, ‘ took 
refuge on the sea, and fled to a foreign land.’ Afterward Toronga 
was killed by another chief, who endeavored to obtain his body in order 
to eat it; but the son of the murdered king secreted his father’s corpse 
and buried it. The name of the son and grandson of Toronga are 
given, but their reigns must have been very short—perhaps merely 
nominal—for one of the chief combatants in the civil war succeeded 
finally in gaining the supreme power. His name was Koa, the thir- 
teenth on the list, and from him the reigning sovereign derives his au- 
thority. His principal opponent, Tapau, fled to a foreign land, or 
abroad. After this follows an account of the numerous dissensions 
which took place in the different reigns, and the annalist remarks, * for- 
inerly they fought much; formerly they ate each other.’ The twenty 
second king, Temangat, was deposed and obliged to flee abroad. The 
usurper Teitiou succeeded, ‘ but his reign was short ; he was conquered 
suddenly.’ His name, it should be remarked, does not appear in the 
list—which shows, with several other circumstances, that it is in fact a 
genealogy, and not a complete enumeration of all who have held the 
sovereign power. The present king, Maputeva, is the fourteenth ina 
direct line from Koa, who gained the supremacy after the death of To- 
ronga, the son-in-law of Anua, thgeighth in descent from Teatumoana. 
The son and grandson of Toronga may be omitted, in which case it 
will appear that twenty five generations, or seven hundred and fifty 
years, have elapsed since the arrival of the first colonists. Therefore, 
if we suppose, as all the circumstances indicate, that they came from 
Rarotonga, they must have left that island about four. generations, OF 
one hundred and twenty years, after it was settled. This would account 
for some of the peculiarities in the dialects of Mangareva. The only 
points of any importance in which it differs from the Rarotongan are, 
first, in the use of raya instead of aya, to form the participial noun, as 
te ope raya for te ope aya, the act of finishing ; and secondly in the use 
of mau as a plural prefix. In both these points it resembles the Tahi- 
tian. Now if the Rarotongan emigrants who settled in Mangareva, 
came, as is most probable, from that side of Rarotonga which faces 
toward the latter group, (i.e. the eastern side,) they were of Ngati- 
