306 KEPORT— 1891. 



place mentioned — probably intended for one of the Fiji Islands. 

 It is found also with the following adjectives, implying probably 

 that there were several islands : Whiti-liaua, Whiti-nuhu, 

 Whiti-raki, and sometimes Tonga-ioliiti. I do not, however, 

 place much reliance on these four latter names, as they have 

 also a meaning not applicable to names of lands. 



In the notes which immediately follow, I have gathered 

 together a few names of places mentioned in Maori traditions 

 and poems which cannot easily be recognised, or about which 

 there is considerable doubt. I do so in the express hope that 

 some one will be able to throw light on their identification. 



34. Uliviaroa. — When Captain Cook was at Doubtless Bay, 

 near the north of New Zealand, the Tahitian Tupaea, who 

 accompanied him, asked the Maoris if they knew of any country 

 but their own ; to which they replied that their ancestors had 

 told them of a country of great extent lying to the north-west 

 by north, or north-north-west, to which they gave the name of 

 — according to Cook's orthography- — Ulimaroa, and they added 

 that some of their ancestors had visited it in a very large canoe, 

 that only part of them returned, and reported that after a 

 passage of a month they had seen a country where the people 

 ate hogs. Tupaea thought that the story was false because they 

 did not bring any of the hogs back with them. Cook very 

 pertinently remarks, however, that the Maoris called the hogs 

 booah, the name common in the islands, and if the animal had 

 been wholly unknown to them, and they had had no com- 

 munication with a people to whom it was known, they could 

 not possibly have been acquainted with the name. 



Now, if this was the mere recollection of the hog brought 

 with them at the time of the lieJce, the Maoris would not have 

 called the animal imaa, but puaka, or poaka, as they do at 

 the present day ; but if they learnt the name some generations 

 after the lieke, and wdien the Polynesians had lost the "k" 

 sound, they would pronounce the word just as here given— viz.. 

 jyuaa. 



The only Polynesian name I know of at all like this is 

 liimaroa, mentioned on Tupaea's chart, and there shown as one 

 of the Paumotu group. But we cannot identify this with the 

 Ulimaroa of the Maori, even if we bear in mind the error in the 

 chart pointed out by Hale, which would make the island to lie 

 somewhere to the south-west of Tahiti instead of in Paumotu. 



Cook also tells us that the Maoris of Queen Charlotte Sound, 

 in the South Island, mentioned this same name to him as that 

 of a distant country, and in this instance pointed to the north 

 as the direction of it. Cook adds that Tupaea seemed to have 

 some knowledge of such a place, derived from a confused 

 ti-aditionary account. 



