PREFACE 
TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
In presenting to the Public another edition of Te 
Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, it 
will be necessary to state that, while all relating to 
the Maori and his myths, &c., which appeared in the 
former work has been retained in this, so much new 
matter is added, and so many other subjects intro- 
duced, that, to a certain extent, it may be regarded 
as a new Work. The original plan has been altered, 
to embrace the Ethnology of the Polynesian races 
in general. Nor have the Geological remarks been 
limited to New Zealand, but they are now extended 
to the Southern Hemisphere. Living in a country 
subject to earthquakes, and having carefully observed 
them, the Author now ventures to give the results. 
Nor has he altogether overlooked the Natural History 
and Botany of those Isles, especially as taken in con- 
nection with the probable geological period to which 
they belong. 
The present Work may be viewed as a digest of 
