CorENso.—On the Maori Races of New Zealand. 405 
ever, the present intention of the writer to go deeply into the subject. 
Only a few thoughts and excogitations will be here set down. 
(1.) That the race is one throughout the numerous islands in the Pacific 
Ocean where the language is spoken. (Vide par. 49.) 
(2.) That from its original wide separation into groups, sufficient time 
must be allowed for the perfect grammatical construction and full develop- 
ment of its leading dialects; the growth of its many and varied habits, 
customs, and manufactures ; and the slow change and product of its various 
mythologies and traditions. 
(8.) That notwithstanding their long and sanguinary wars among them- 
selves from time immemorial, prior to their discovery by Europeans, the 
respective islands were teeming with population. 
(4.) That while some have supposed the race to have sprung from the 
Malays, from a very slight physical resemblance, and from the likeness of 
a few words of their language, there is quite as much, if not a greater, 
physical resemblance between the race and the people of Madagascar, on the 
opposite side of the globe, whose language also contains a few words and 
sentences which are identical. : 
(5.) That, with the exception of the Islands of New Zealand, which are 
the farthest south, the race is almost exclusively found in the easternmost 
isles and groups of the Pacific, and not in the numerous isles nearest to the 
ala 
ys. 
(6.) That it would have been impossible for any regular migration to have 
ever taken place from the Malays to the Polynesian islands, owing to the 
frailness of their shipping, and to the prevailing trade winds and equatorial 
currents being contrary. 
(7. That the Malays were found by Cook and the earlier navigators 
to know the use of iron and other metals, and invariably to chew betel, 
drink palm wine (/oddy), smoke, cook in earthen pots, live in partitioned 
houses, and to be strict monogamists; none of which national habits and 
eustoms, nor the knowledge of any metal, has been detected among the 
Polynesians. 
(8.) That the near resemblance or even identity of a few (quasi) 
Malayan words prove really little, when. it is considered (a) that those 
words only obtain among the sea-coast natives of Malaya; and (b) that the 
same words are found more or less in use in the sea coasts of Java, Sumbawa, 
and the Philippine and other isles, including even Madagascar. May it not 
therefore be reasonably inquired, whether those few words might not rather 
have reached those several Northern Asiatie isles from Polynesia, than vice 
? : 
(9.) That the language spoken by the Polynesian race has no affinity with 
