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A Genealogy including McFni from the commencement, viz., from Rangi and 

 Papa to the present time. 



Earotimn 



Rarotake 



Potu 



Pohaere 



Powhakataka 



Po-aniwaniwa 



Maheatu 



Maheawa 

 . Takahuriwhenua 



\ Murirangawhenua 



Taranga 



Maid. — Sir, this is our ancestor who fished up this island of 

 Aotearoa : he hauled it up with the jawbone of his 

 ancestress. The hook caught the house of Hinenui-te- 

 po. The name of the house was Rarotonga. 

 Maui begat Wharuakura 



Uhenga 



Poutaua 



Whitirangi mamao 



Kupe 



Hina 



Houmatauniata 



Paikuiha 



Tu-whaitini 



Tutarau]3oko 



Tuaruma 



Tukonona 



Tuhurutira 



Aokarere 



Tu-Makaueuru 



Tu Makawerangi 



Tu-te-Rangikawekite 



Tu-te-Rangiwetewetea 



Tu-hakirikona 



Rakailierea 



Poutawiti 



Rakaikoao 



Whana 



Hora 



Tamatetane 



Hoakakari 



Ropata. 



Art LV. — The Origin of the Boomerang. By W. D. Campbell, F.G.S. 

 [Read before the Auckland Institute, 23rd October, 1882.] 

 The existence of such a peculiar and unique weapon as the boomerang 

 among one of the lowest forms of humanity — as the aborigines of Aitstralia 

 — has excited a great deal of interest among ethnologists ; but it has never 

 been satisfactorily explained. It has been claimed as being derived from 

 some hypothetical culture, while on the other hand it is regarded as a 

 specialized form of the throwing cudgel and stick, and that intermediate 

 forms are to be found in Australia, but it has not been understood how the 

 peculiar form and flight of the missile was suggested ; and it is upon this 

 point I offer an explanation, which was given me by my friend, W. H. 



