Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volume 4Polynesian Society, 1915 - Anthropology |
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... voyages in bags made of seaweed , and that every night these were hung over the sides of the canoes in order to keep the water cool , and the bags moist and so pre- vent evaporation . There was one of the settlements in Irihia named ...
... voyages in bags made of seaweed , and that every night these were hung over the sides of the canoes in order to keep the water cool , and the bags moist and so pre- vent evaporation . There was one of the settlements in Irihia named ...
Page 16
... voyages had been made by these people to the east , and other lands discovered . According to the teaching of the Sages from whom so many of the particulars herein given were obtained , the first vessel ever built by 66 their ancestors ...
... voyages had been made by these people to the east , and other lands discovered . According to the teaching of the Sages from whom so many of the particulars herein given were obtained , the first vessel ever built by 66 their ancestors ...
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... voyage , or voyages , excepting that we know this very migration we are treating of were following the directions of he who had come back " ( without mentioning the name of the voyager ) who may have been Tama - rereti , or perhaps ...
... voyage , or voyages , excepting that we know this very migration we are treating of were following the directions of he who had come back " ( without mentioning the name of the voyager ) who may have been Tama - rereti , or perhaps ...
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... voyage was from some part of the Erythrean Sea in Southern Arabia , and that the terminus of the voyage was at Jawa " —which , no doubt is one of the Hawaikis or Hawaiis . He goes on to suggest that the seas described above and others ...
... voyage was from some part of the Erythrean Sea in Southern Arabia , and that the terminus of the voyage was at Jawa " —which , no doubt is one of the Hawaikis or Hawaiis . He goes on to suggest that the seas described above and others ...
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... voyage he may have discovered the latter group . If he steered by the Pleiades from any where about the Celebes Islands , such a course would take him to the Hawaii group . Fornander does not notice in his work what I suggest is a ...
... voyage he may have discovered the latter group . If he steered by the Pleiades from any where about the Celebes Islands , such a course would take him to the Hawaii group . Fornander does not notice in his work what I suggest is a ...
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ahua aku toki Aotea-roa ariki atua aua iwi canoe enei haere Hawaiki heke hoki ingoa Irihia island ka mate Kāhu kainga kaore karakia katahi Kati katoa ki te kiia kitea koia konei kore korero koutou kowhatu Kupe Kura-hau-pō land mahi Manaia Maori mate Matorohanga mea atu migration moana mutu Muturangi nga iwi nga tangata nga waka Ngake noho noho ana Polynesian Pu-whenua rakau ranei rangi Rangi-atea Rangi-nui Rarotonga ratou raua rawa reira rongo Rongo-patahi roto Rua-wharo runga South Island taha Tahiti Tainui Takitimu takoto taku taku waka tama Tama-ahua tamariki Tamatea tāne tapu Taranaki tatou taua Tauranga Te Arawa tenei tera tetahi tipua tohunga Toi-te-huatahi tona tonu tribes Tu-rahui Tupai Turi Uenuku voyage wahi wahine waho waiho whare Whare-wānanga Whatonga wheke whenua Zealand
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Page 57 - It has occurred to me that the second Kupe, whilst he did come to New Zealand to search for a certain man named Tuputupu-whenua (as some accounts say), did not do more than sail along the West Coast of the North Island, and did not explore the South Island at all. This would agree with some of the narratives. We shall see that the Sage's account takes his hero all round both islands. I will leave the reader to draw his own conclusions as to the story of the ' Wheke-a-Muturangi ' ; and merely remind...
Page 38 - Vai-takere, when, as appears undoubted the people were living in Indonesia, down to that of Tu-tarangi, whose epoch has been shown to be about AD 450, there is again complete silence as to the doings of the people, and nothing whatever is related of the sixteen ancestors who separate the two people mentioned. In Tu-tarangi's time the people were living in Fiji, for that place and Avaiki are named as his country, which from the names of other places now for the first time mentioned, such as...
Page 11 - Bharatavarasha which cannot produce, if not some living remnants of this race, at least some remains of past times which prove their presence. Indeed the Kurumbas must be regarded as very old inhabitants of this land, who can contest with their Dravidian kinsmen the priority of occupation of the Indian soil.
Page 35 - Unwritten Literature of Hawaii " (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 38, 1909, page 189-190), where that learned Hawaiian scholar says: "This (referring to o Ahu) is an instance of the separation of the article o from the substantive Ahu, to which it becomes joined to from the proper name of the island now called Oahu.
Page 67 - The sun sets about SW by W. in the end of November in New Zealand, and that is almost the exact course from Rarotonga, which was always the starting-point for New Zealand.
Page 148 - I am departing to search for my grandchildren. If anyone arrives here after me (in search of me), tell them my canoe is directed towards Aotea (New Zealand), to the 'Tiritiri-o-te-moana,'to the land on which the clouds and fog rests, there to look for my grandchildren. And if the bows of the canoe should touch there, perhaps I shall stay there, perhaps I shall return. If I do not reach there, I shall have descended to the bottom of the great belly of Lady-Ocean.
Page 127 - The probability is that we have never made sufficient allowance for voyages made back from New Zealand to Eastern Polynesia during the years that New Zealand was being settled by the Maoris. It seems to me that ' Tokomaru ' must have gone back to Tahiti, as several other canoes apparently did, and then returned with the Fleet ; or, there must have been a second canoe of the same name.] MANAIA'S DOINGS AT HAWAIKI (TAHITI).