246 F. W. CHRISTIAN, B.A., ON THE EVIDENCE OF MALAY, JAVANESE, 
The first Inca, Manco Kapak, was probably a Javanese rajah, 
who in fear of the growing tide of Mohammedan invasion, got 
together a great fleet and army, and with other chiefs, perhaps 
from Borneo, Celebes, the Philippines and the Moluccas, 
set sail across the ocean to found a new kingdom. The line 
of migration traced to such a fleet sailing out of Gilolo Straits, 
with the north tradewind behind it, following the eastward 
equatorial current would touch at the following places : — 
First, the Pelews, then Yap and Palawat; then Ponape and 
the Mortlocks ; then the Marshall Islands ; then Hawaii ; 
then Tahiti. From Tahiti such a tide of migration might 
easily flow into two branches. One going upwards to the 
Paumotus and the Marquesas, [the land of Hiva or Iva, which 
looks very much like a colony of Siva worshippers], and the 
other southwards to Samoa, Earotonga and New Zealand. I 
think the point at which they struck Tahiti on the voyage 
down from Hawaii [ Hawa-ciki or little Java\ was Port Phaethon 
on the Isthmus of Taravon, a splendid harbour lying at the 
mouth of the Tau-Tira Eiver. 
Now what does the name Tau-Tira mean ? Much history 
may lurk behind a little geographical name. It means The 
River of the Forest of Masts, just like the Thames at Limehouse. 
So you see in your mind’s eye, limned as clear as by the 
flashlight on the camera-plate, the stirring scene, a fleet of 
Javanese prahus and galleys, filling the river mouth, like the 
fleet of Edward and the Duke of Gloucester at Humbermouth, 
bent on conquest. The chiefs in their splendid armour, their 
silken scarves, and many coloured Malay kilts and parti-coloured 
trews, like Highlanders on their native heath, their gold-studded 
belts carrying an armoury of Malay kreeses and daggers, and 
their retinue of spear-men, archers, slingers, and cross-bowmen. 
What Tahitian legend have we to fill up the background ? 
The natives of the Isthmus state that the great warrior tribe of 
the district were called Tevas, and that their tribal song was : — 
Teva te Ua, Teva te Matai, 
Teva te Mamari, Teva te Ahu-rai.* 
Teva the Eain, Teva the Wind, 
Teva the Mamari, Teva the Holy Shrine. 
* Can these refer to the names of four great vessels ? In Maori 
legend Mamari is the name of a famous big canoe of an early migration. 
It is a pure Sanskrit name, Marmari, the white pine. Similarly in the 
old Maori legends they say that the big canoes were built of the Totara 
tree, that is the Beodara, the deodar, cedar, or red pine. 
