ANCIENT SEA CLIFF INLAND ON THE MOKAU. 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
ORIGIN, AS TRACED BY LANGUAGE. 
The word Maori , which they apply to themselves as their 
peculiar name, signifies anything that is native or indige- 
nous. Maori has precisely the same meaning as the word 
Moor, and has a singular resemblance to it, especially to the 
more ancient one of Mauri ; the root of the word is uri, 
which means dark,, hence Mauri is the dark blood of the 
heart, and uri the root of many other words, as pouri, 
darkness ; kakouri, dark, over-hanging cloud ; wheuri, dark 
deep water; tua uri uri,. blackening masses, dark clouds; 
kakarauri, getting dark, dusk ; kauri, the kauri pine, most 
probably derived from the rezin which, when burnt for tat- 
tooing, is black ; uri also signifies offspring, the uri Tangata, 
the beginning of man, is lost in darkness. 
There are two other African words identical with New 
Zealand ones, which may be alluded to without drawing 
any inference from them ; one is door, the Siloe of Morocco, 
