Hawaiki The Original Home of the Maori

by Stephenson Percy Smith

HAWAIKI:

THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE MAORI;

WITH A SKETCH OF POLYNESIAN HISTORY.

By S. PERCY SMITH, F.R.G.S.,

Hon. Cor. Member Societá Italiana d'Anthropologia, a Governor of the
New Zealand Institute, Hon. Secretary of the Polynesian
Society, &c., &c., &c.

Second Edition. Enlarged and Mostly Re-written.

Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin, N.Z.:
Melbourne and London:

WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS LIMITED.

1904.

He ahunga mai, he aponga mai, i Hawaiki;
Ka tupu, ka rito, ka toto, ka take, ka whakaikura.

Dedicated

to the memory of

ABRAHAM FORNANDER,

District Judge of Hawaii,
the first Polynesian
scholar to apply the
Polynesian traditions to
the solution of
the origin of the Race.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

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This work was first published in the "Journal of the Polynesian Society," Vols. VII. and VIII., and subsequently issued in book form. It has now been largely re-written, and the whole rearranged in such a manner as to form a sketch of the History of the Polynesian race—particularly the Maori-Rarotongan branch—down to the separation of the New Zealand Maoris from the original stock, when they migrated from Eastern Polynesia to New Zealand. The work is treated from the point of view of the Traditions, and mainly from those of Rarotonga, a written copy of which was secured by the author in Rarotonga in 1897. These traditions were dictated by Te Ariki tara-are, the last of the high priests of Rarotonga, and therefore are from the highest authority possible. A few of the Traditions themselves have been published—both in the native language and in English—in the above-named journal, but the bulk of them remain as yet untranslated.

S. PERCY SMITH.

⁠Matai-moana,
⁠New Plymouth, N.Z.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Polynesian Race and its Traditions	9
II.	Genealogical Connections and Chronology	21
III.	Names of the Traditional Fatherland—
	⁠Hawaiki	38
	⁠Tawhiti	50
	⁠Wawau	53
	⁠Mataora	55
	⁠Raro or Roro	55
	⁠Atia-te-varinga-nui	57
IV.	The Polynesians Originated in India	64
V.	The Gangetic Race	66
	⁠Dates in Indian History	74
VI.	The "Log Books" of the Migrations	77
VII.	Sketch of the History of the Race	89
	⁠Atia-te-varinga-nui, or Hawaiki-nui	90
	⁠Avaiki-te-varinga, or Avaiki	95
	⁠The White Race	95
	⁠Sojourn in Indonesia	98
	⁠The Papuan Race of Indonesia	102
	⁠Maui, the Ancient Hero	105
	⁠Arrival in Fiji	111
	⁠The Polynesians as Navigators	123
	⁠Occurrences in Fiji, Samoa, Haapai, &c.	140
	⁠Sojourn in Eastern Polynesia	165
	⁠The Settlement of Rarotonga	172
	⁠Tahitian Origin of the Maoris	193
	⁠Rarotongan Account of the Migrations to N.Z.	204
	⁠Table of Dates in Polynesian History	222