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indebted to a large number of authors for the data, besides, so 

 far as New Zealand is concerned, my own notes acquired from 

 the Maoris during the last thirty-five years. The authorities 

 are quoted under each heading. 



Places known to the Maoris op New Zealand. 



1. Bawaiki. — This is the name of the place from which the 

 people derive their origin ; it is of very frequent occurrence in 

 their traditions, songs, and poems. The particular Hawaiki to 

 which the Maoris refer I believe to be Eaiatea, in the Society 

 group, for the following reasons (among many others) : — 



The ancient name of Eaiatea was Havaii, according to Ellis, 

 and also according to De Bovis, and Mr. James L. Young, of 

 Tahiti. 



2. Baiigiatea. — In 1859 an old Maori of the Puketapu 

 hapu of Ngatiawa, living on the west coast of the North Island, 

 told me that the name of the place his ancestors came from 

 in Hawaiki wtxs llangiatea. Now, if we recollect that the 

 Tahitians do not sound the ng of the Maori, the above word 

 becomes at once Eaiatea, and it has the same meaning both in 

 Tahitian and Maori. The name does not occur frequently in 

 Maori traditions, the older ]iame of Havaii or Hawaiki taking 

 its place ; but in one tradition it is mentioned as the home of 

 Tint ran, one of the Polynesian deified chiefs, and the brother- 

 in-law of Maui. 



It is also referred to in Mr. John White's "'Lectures" 

 (Auckland, 1860) as the name of a temple in Hawaiki. This 

 temple, no doubt, has some reference to the very celebrated 

 marac at Opoa, in Eaiatea, which was the scene of so many 

 ceremonies, and the fame of which had reached most of the 

 other groups. It was looked on as a very sacred spot. 



There is a Maori proverb which also contains the name 

 — " Te Karaka i ruia mai i runga o Eangiatea," which the 

 Eev. E. Taylor refers to as " a mountain in Hawaiki; too high 

 to be overlooked." This was the motto of one of the tribes. 



But to complete the identification would lead me into 

 other lines of reasoning, for which this is not the place. 



8. Waicaii. — A place mentioned in the remarkable voyage 

 made by Whiro and Tura, given in Mr. John White's " Ancient 

 History of the Maori," vol. ii., p. 7, where Whiro is described 

 as leaving his own island for Wairau. Whiro, under the name 

 of Hiro, was a deified chief of Eaiatea, and has the same 

 thievish attributes as the New Zealand hero, together with the 

 credit of having made some remarkable voyages. 



l. Waivau-atea is the name of the place from which 

 A'hjjc sailed on his voyage to New Zealand (see several Maori 

 traditions; also Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. i., p. 23). Wawau 



