Philadelphia, 1846), pp.
146 _sqq._; Sir George Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_ (London,
1855), pp. 123 _sqq._, 136 _sqq._, 162 _sqq._, 202 _sqq._; E.
Shortland, _Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders_,
Second Edition (London, 1856), pp. 1 _sqq._; R. Taylor, _Te Ika
A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants_, Second Edition
(London, 1870), pp. 26, 27, 289 _sqq._; John White, _The Ancient
History of the Maori, his Mythology and Traditions_ (London,
1887-1889), ii. 176 _sqq._; Elsdon Best, "The Peopling of New
Zealand," _Man_, xiv. (1914) pp. 73-76. The number of
generations which have elapsed since the migration to New
Zealand is variously estimated. Writing about the middle of the
nineteenth century Shortland reckoned the number at about
eighteen; Mr. Elsdon Best, writing in 1914, variously calculated
it at about twenty-eight or twenty-nine (on p. 73) and from
eighteen to twenty-eight (on p. 74).

[12] E. Shortland, _Traditions and Superstitions of the New
Zealanders_, p. 33.

[13] H. Hale, _Ethnography and Philology of the U.S. Exploring
Expedition_, pp. 119 _sq._; E. Dieffenbach, _Travels in New
Zealand_ (London, 1843), ii. 85 _sqq._; E. Shortland,
_Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders_, pp. 33
_sqq._; A. S. Thomson, _The Story of New Zealand_ (London,
1859), i. 57 _sqq._; R. Taylor, _Te Ika A Maui_, p. 26; E.
Tregear, _Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary_ (Wellington,
N.Z., 1891), pp. 56 _sqq._, _s.v._ "Hawaiki"; A. C. Haddon, _The
Wanderings of Peoples_ (Cambridge, 1919), p. 36. Of these
writers, Dieffenbach, Shortland, and Taylor decide in favour of
Hawaii; Thomson, Hale, and Haddon prefer Savaii; Tregear seems
to leave the question open, pointing out that "the inhabitants
of those islands themselves believe in another Hawaiki, neither
in Samoa nor Hawaii."

The Maoris are not a pure-blooded Polynesian race. Among them even at
the present day two distinct racial types may be distinguished, one of
them the comparatively fair Polynesian type with straight nose and good
features, the other the swarthy, thick-lipped, flat-nosed,
frizzly-haired Melanesian type. They have a tradition that on their
arrival in New Zealand they found the country in the possession of a
dark-skinned folk of repulsive appearance, tall, spare, and
spindle-shanked, with flat faces, overhang