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tangata whenua tribes enters in some cases very largely into the existing 
tribes. Of the people absorbed, a large proportion must have been women, : 
as very few are recorded in the passenger-lists of the famous Hawaiki canoes. — 
Though the eastern Polynesians, by their higher mentality and aristocra 
and warlike character, must have imposed their higher culture upon t 
Judge Maning describes, in Old New Zealand, a dilemma that occurred 
the last canoe setting out on an expedition. When the food-supplies 
to be transported down to the canoe it was found that all the slaves 
the anatomical boundaries of tapu from their sacred heads to their bu 
rejecting backs. Ko wai ka mohio. Ў 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
by Mr. McDonald, and the plates with this article are from photo 
him. I 
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