THE TWO RACES WHICH PEOPLED POLYNESIA. 
13 
the period which elapsed since their arrival, it tends also to 
establish the fact that it was not the brown, but the black, 
who first peopled those islands, as well as the entire southern 
hemisphere. 
The Melanesian preceded the Polynesian, and remnants of 
that more ancient race are to be found widely dispersed 
throughout Australia, Polynesia, and the Indian Isles ; more 
nearly allied to the African than the Asiatic in color and 
feature, inferior to the Maori in stature and intellect, and 
occupying a lower grade in the scale of civilization. 
The remains of this race are to be seen in every part of 
New Zealand, especially among the Nga-ti-ka-hunu, to which 
the derisive name of Pokerekahu — Black Kumara — is applied.* 
The Maori traditions preserve both the names of the 
canoes which brought them to New Zealand, as well as of 
the chiefs who commanded them ; several of these records 
make mention of their having found this black race in 
occupation of the country on their arrival. f 
* The author was once travelling m the interior with a negro in his party. 
On entering a village, one of those dark chocolate coloured natives came to 
welcome him ; on his perceiving the negro, he ran and threw his arms round 
his neck, embracing him, and saying, that “now at last he had found his 
brother,” a claim of relationship that the negro did not seem at all disposed to 
allow. 
f The following is the pedigree of Rawinia Rere, wife of Hoani Wiremu 
Hipango, from Turi, the first man who settled on the west coast when he 
arrived from Hawaiki in the Aotea : — 
I. 
Turi and Rongorongo. 
18. 
Maruaia. 
2. 
Turanga i mua. 
19. 
Ko Rake Kohera. 
3 - 
Tamatea. 
20. 
Ko te Koratu. 
4 - 
Ko Hikuao. 
21. 
Ko te Aomakiri. 
5 - 
Ko Haereao. 
22. 
Ko Tautope. 
6. 
Ko te Ihi. 
23 - 
Ko Taipu. 
7 - 
Ko te Mana. 
24. 
Ko Kaia. 
8. 
Ko te Tapu. 
25 - 
1. Ko Rangi. 2. Hoani Rawen- 
9 - 
Ko te Marutuna. 
ata-matao. 3. Ko Keo. 4. 
IO. 
Ko te Maruwehi. 
Ko te Herepu. 
ii. 
Ko te Maruaitu. 
1. Weta Kuini Kahu-Waere- 
12. 
Ko te Maruariki. 
rewa. 
13 - 
Ko te Hikorangi. 
26. 
2. Rawinia Rere mar : to Hoani 
14. 
Ratua 0 te Rangi. 
W. Hipango. 
IS- 
Rangi-tau mai waho. 
27. 
1. Hori K. Hipango. 2. Wata 
16. 
Rangi paki iwi. 
I. Hipango. 
i 7 - 
Rangi hikaka. 
