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PREFACEFROM Asia in the west, the ancestors of the Polynesians reached out across the bright Pacific to Tahiti and its neighbouring islands. In those green gardens of abundance they flourished and multiplied so greatly that in time they had to spread again. Parties, most probably of tribes defeated inquarrels over land and food, set out in canoes from Ra’iatea, Tahiti itself, and other islands of Central Polynesia, to look for new homes. Some, sailing northward, found the Hawaiian islands, and their descendants are today American citizens. Others, being blown or sailing south and west, found the cooler and very much larger islands which they called Aotearoa, ‘Long White Cloud', and their descendants are today New Zealanders—but are known as ‘Maori', from their own word meaning ‘a person of this place’. Their more austere, or at any rate less lush environment may have made them a little graver than their tropical cousins are today.The Maori, like the Hawaiians, carried with them from the homeland a mythology that matched their own great qualities, yet whose elements can be traced back to the home of man himself, being obviously drawn from the ancient common stock of universal myth.

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Author

Anthony Alpers, Patrick Hanly

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Company

Published

1966

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, World History, Humanities