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NAMES. 
Pakeha is likewise a name for the west wind ; and it is 
not improbable, as the Europeans always arrived from the 
west that they acquired the name from the wind which 
chiefly brought them. Poke ha means a favorable breath or 
breeze. The Europeans are termed, Wai tai , salt water, 
whilst the Maori are Wai Mauri, fresh water. There are 
other names given them as well, such as piha, iron, poroteke, 
pora , mad drunken, and such like. 
In the Sandwich Isles a ship is called he motu , an island, 
from its vast size when compared with their canoes. The 
first impression formed upon the mind of the Maori when he 
saw a ship was, that it was a flying god, which they attempted 
to kill or overcome by their potent spells. Afterwards when 
they were permitted to go on board and behold the im- 
mense quantity of provisions it contained, their admiration 
, was so great, they exclaimed, He kai puke ! a hill of food, 
and that is still their name for ships. 
The first thing that Adam is recorded to have done was 
the naming of the different creatures which the Almighty had 
made. What a prominence does this his first recorded act 
give to the importance of names ! by them one creature is dis- 
tinguished from another ; individuality is thereby secured, 
each is taken separately out of the grand bundle of life, and 
severally specified by name ; Adam and Eve thus had names 
bestowed by their Creator himself, and we are assured this 
will be continued in a future state as well. But Adam’s 
work showed the difference made between man and other 
creatures, he only named their grand families to separate 
one species from another, but he distinguished each of his 
own children by name, and thus this primaeval practice has 
been continued without exception by every section of the 
family of man, however rude and degraded, each individual 
bearing his own peculiar name ; and in this also we trace the 
unity and identity of our race. This subject might be car- 
ried much further. The poor despised Australian has not 
only his own particular name but several others by which 
his tribe, family, and distinguishing characteristic may be 
known ; he has also names for the various degrees of relation- 
