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other ; it is found in New Zealand, and there it ends. 
It belongs peculiarly to the Polynesian, and marks his pre- 
sence, as the Fetish tree does that of the African; both are 
found and both finish in New Zealand, which appears to be 
the grand terminus to the south of those two great sections 
of the human family, there they meet, and there they seem 
to end their wide extended migrations, each proceeding 
from the opposite quarter of the globe to the other. 
However widely the migrations of the black and brown 
races have extended throughout the southern hemisphere, 
the Pacific has been peopled by other races as well. 
Sufficient attention has not been given to the amount 
of influence exercised by the Japanese in former days ; 
they have played the same part in those southern seas that 
the sea kings did in the north, and what the Malay and 
Chinaman are still doing in the Indian Archipelago, where 
they are as much dreaded as the north-men ever were in 
past times. This is noticed by a recent writer and voyager : 
“ A great infusion of Chinese and Japanese blood, the old 
Japanese vi-kings spread terror along the coasts of China 
for thousands of miles. I saw several men who, if met with 
elsewhere, would have been taken for Chinese, having the 
same oblique eyes, and wearing their hair in two little twisted 
tails behind their ears/'’* A resemblance is likewise to be 
traced between the Japanese and Maori in their feasts ; it is 
the custom of both to give portions to their guests, and 
for them to carry away what they receive. In former times 
prostitution was not viewed as any discredit to the un, 
married female, on the contrary, it was considered a part of 
the host-s duty in bestowing his hospitality to offer his guests 
temporary partners, who were called Waiaijpo. Girls were 
at perfect liberty to act as they pleased until married, when 
they became Tapu to their husbands. The oblique eye, the 
prominent cheek bone, the absence of the bridge in the nose, 
the hair tied up into a top-knot, as a tihi or tiki, was also the 
Japanese custom. The sacred character of chiefs, the ariki, 
having a kind of divinity ascribed to them, resembles that of 
* Cruise of the Fawn , p. 143. 
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