146 ETHNOGRAPHY. 



PAUMOTUAN. POLYNESIAN. 



-geka, . . . lima, . . . five. 



hene, . . . ono, . . . six. 



hito, . . . fitu, . . . seven. 



hawa, . . . valu, . . . eight. 



nipa, . . . iva, , . . nine. 



horihori, . . . fulu, . . . ten. 



penu, . . . lau, . . . hundred. 



NEW ZEALAND. 



In our remarks on Tahiti, we have had occasion to quote the tradi- 

 tion given by Cook as prevalent among the New Zealanders, namely, 

 that their ancestors came, like those of the Tahitians, from a country 

 called Heawije. During our stay at the Bay of Islands, the opportu- 

 nity was improved of making inquiries of the natives on this subject, 

 and the replies obtained were more satisfactory than we had antici- 

 pated. The old men stated, as the traditionary belief, that the first 

 maori (natives) came from Hawaiki, a country to the east. The 

 principal men who arrived were Rongokako, Tanetuturi, Tanepepeke, 

 Tanetvftika, Tanerveka, Tanetervaiura, Tanenuiarangi, Kopaia, and 

 Koruaupoko. The names of the canoes were Tahi-nui (or Tai-nui), 

 Tearawa, Horouta, and Takitumu. The first places at which they 

 established themselves were Karvia, on the west coast, Maketu, near 

 the East Cape, Turanga or Poverty Bay, and Ahuriri, near the eastern 

 entrance of Cook's Strait. 



The natives have also an account of the arrival of a party from the 

 same place, Hawaiki, at a very late date, by which the kumara, or 

 sweet potato, was first introduced into the islands. This party 

 arrived in the time of Teraraku, the great grandfather of Pomare, the 

 present chief of the Bay of Islands, or about a hundred years ago. 

 The name of the chief who arrived was Pani, with his sister Hincb- 

 kakirirangi. By one account they were in a single canoe, made of a 

 number of pieces lashed together, which is the mode of building in 

 the Navigator Islands. But another native, of whom we made the 

 inquiry, said that they had several canoes, and gave the same names 

 that we had already received for those belonging to the first emigrants. 

 There was evidently some confusion in this, and it seemed, at first, 

 not improbable that the latter account was the correct one, and that 

 the first tradition was too particular and detailed to apply to the 



