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THE TWO RACES WHICH PEOPLED POLYNESIA. 
the Japanese Micado, are also so many proofs of foreign ad- 
mixture. This seems to be established beyond a doubt, by the 
discovery of an ancient bronze bell, which, doubtless, once 
belonged to a large junk, that at some remote period had 
been cast away on the New Zealand shores ; the crew, pro- 
bably amounting to more than a hundred, might have escaped 
to the land, and would, doubtless, be fraternised with by the 
tribe belonging to that district, which would feel its im- 
portance increased by such an addition from a superior 
race, just as it did with the European on his first arrival. 
This bell was discovered at Wangarei by Mr. Colenso, the 
Church Missionary printer; he found the natives cooking 
potatoes in it, and using it as a Jcohua , iron pot, stopping 
up a hole in it with a potatoe ; he offered them a new pot 
for it, much larger and better adapted for the purpose, 
which they thankfully accepted. He enquired whence it was 
obtained ; they said that a heavy gale blew down a large tree, 
and under its roots, to their surprise, they found the bell. 
There is an inscription running round it, which the writer 
believes was sent to Mr. Crawford, who pronounced it to be 
Tamil, which would not militate against the supposition here 
made, as China received the Buddist faith from Ceylon, and, 
doubtless with it their sacred bells, which would be prized 
as a protection for their junks in their long voyages. 
At any rate, the bell is a clear proof that either the Chinese 
or Japanese, or both, have visited the shores of New 
Zealand, and have left far more permanent remains of the 
fact than even the bell, in the oblique eye and Tartar ex- 
pression, which is so perceptible in almost every part of the 
northern island. There are also many minor points of re- 
semblance between the Maori and the Chinese. Both speak 
of Father heaven and Mother earth, which seems con- 
nected with the Indian myth of the mundane egg. The 
way a Chinese takes leave of his friend is identical with 
that of the Maori. The Celestial says to him, main main 
bean, go slowly ; to which the person leaving replies, cheang 
sani, please sit ; the Maori says to his departing friend, 
Jiacre ra , or haere marire , go truly or go slowly, and he an- 
