MAORI WAR TRUMPETS. 
CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
CHRONOLOGY. 
Haying begun with tlie traditions of the natives anterior to 
the arrival of the European, I shall conclude with briefly 
considering the country's subsequent history. It seems re- 
markable that so large a portion of our globe should have 
remained totally unknown to the nations of the west, until a 
comparatively recent period, and that then the thick mist, 
which had shut out these portions of the globe, from our 
sight, should all at once be rolled aside, and reveal them to 
us. Either the family of man was not before sufficiently 
advanced to profit by the discovery, or the Anglo-Saxon race 
which was destined to colonize them, was not earlier in a 
position to do so. 
