290 KEPOBT— 1891. 



the history of the migrations, if we niay believe the more 

 than usually minute account of their voyage given by For- 

 nander, and the lengthy genealogy preserved by the people. 



In this account of the two expeditions the names are given 

 of fourteen different resting-places by one account and eighteen 

 by the other. Of these, only two, or perhaps three, can be 

 identified with certainty, and this well illustrates the remarks 

 made previously, to the effect that the names of places change, 

 and the ancient ones come to be known only to the emigrants. 

 No doubt this long list of islands at which the people stayed 

 for a longer or shorter time carries back the history of their 

 voyage to far-distant lands in the Eastern Archipelago, but at the 

 same time it clearly indicates the route taken durmg the latter 

 part of it, which was through Fiji, Tonga, and probably Samoa. 

 From Marquesas — or Ao77ia'ama/'- as the natives call it — the 

 explorations extended northwards to the Sandwich Islands, or 

 Hawaii, a distance of some 2,400 miles, for there is to be found 

 in the traditions of the latter islands mention of names of 

 islands in the former group : indeed, it is known by tradition 

 that voyages to and fro were occasionally made by both peoples 

 during the golden age of their knowledge of navigation and 

 seamanship — i.e., about from twenty to thirty generations ago. 

 At this period, also, voyages were frequently made between the 

 Sandwich Islands; Tahiti, Samoa, and the other groups : indeed, 

 many of the Hawaiians trace their descent from settlers arriving 

 from the southern isles at this time. It would be also at that 

 period that the Maoris of New Zealand acquired a knowledge 

 of people's names who were also known to the Hawaiians, and 

 whose exploits have been handed down in the traditions of 

 both races. This knowledge was acquired at their common 

 meeting-ground of Tahiti and the neighbouring islands. 



To the southward of Tahiti, at some six hundred miles dis- 

 tance, lies the Hervey group, the principal island of which is 

 Rarotonga, which was discovered, according to the tradition re- 

 lated to the Eev. J. Williams in 1823, and since often verified, 

 by Karika, who, sailing from Mami'a, in the Samoan group, 

 twenty-nine generations before Williams's visit, found the 

 island, and took possession of it. On his way northward 

 Karika fell in with Tangiia, a chief of Tahiti, who, like Karika, 

 was on an exploring expedition to find a new home for himself 

 and followers, he having been expelled from Tahiti by bis 

 brother Tu-tajnt-aru-roa, on account of a quarrel about laud. 



These two hekes settled down together at Rarotonga. It is 

 from these same people, a few generations later, that some of 



* The apostrophe here indicates? the dropping of the " r," common to 

 the ^larquesaus. In !Maori, the word Aomarama is of common use, and 

 means "the world," or " tlie light world," or "daylight," in contra- 

 dislinclion to " Po," or " night," or Hades. 



