GEOGRAPHY OF THE MIGRATIONS. Ta 
some port long before they began to run short; they had the cargo 
space; their food was portable. The Polynesians had most inferior 
cargo space in their canoes and their food lacked portability, for it 
was almost solely fresh vegetables. Upon this point of victual we find 
preserved a migration record. The voyage which brought the Maori 
to New Zealand was protracted beyond the food-supply possible to 
some of the canoes, and tradition has preserved for our information 
the knowledge that it was at the last necessary to have recourse to the 
crew as food, a double economy in that each paddler who kept his 
mates alive became also one less mouth to feed. I have been able to 
examine a few of the great double canoes of Polynesia, probably to be 
taken as fair representatives of the vessels of the great migrations. I 
judge that the hold and deck space on the canoes which I have sur- 
veyed was capable of carrying of the bulky vegetable supply no more 
than sufficient victual and water than would suffice to maintain the 
people of such a vessel for little over a week—ten days at the outside 
on short commons. This means that the units of the fleets of such 
migrations, not considered as under any admiralty of control of 
their movement, but each for himself, must at brief intervals come to 
land for purposes of revictualment. 
Such landing-points fall likewise into the possibility of three classes. 
The simplest comprises those lands without habitants, such as we 
believe to have been the case in the islands of the Polynesian Verge. 
Here the migrants might be expected to find a day-by-day support, 
but to accumulate provision for a further voyage would call for such 
sojourn as would afford time for agricultural operations. Each such 
island would prove attractive to some of the fleet; they would be 
content to enjoy their new-found peace. _Thus we should expect to 
find such islands of undiluted Polynesian races as we do find dotted 
along a thread from the Carolines to Nuclear Polynesia. Each such 
island would form a new point of departure when population approached 
the limit of productivity or when feud arose within the settlement of 
this proud and war-enjoying race. ‘Thus each would be both settle- 
ment and crop colony. ‘That such has been the case, even in default 
of tradition in Melanesia, is permissible inference from what we know 
to have come to pass in Samoa and many eastern island communities, 
even to the outermost limit of the island Pacific. 
In the second class we have to consider the probability of the nature 
of the reception of Polynesians by existing populations. That it 
could have been peaceable is impossible to consider, for peace even to 
the world’s highest peoples is an aspiration rather than a fact. We 
picture the coming of Polynesians to Melanesian communities in the 
light of a raid of sea marauders. Food is a necessity, fighting a joy, 
resistance meets onslaught. It matters not what the result of these 
unchronicled combats in a distant sea, the ethnic result is practically 
