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GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS AND CHRONOLOGY
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on those of Rarotonga, which we will now proceed to further consider.

The next period on the Rarotonga lines after Tu-te-rangi-marama, and one of very great importance, that requires fixing, is that of the noted ancestor Tu-tarangi,[1] in whose time the people first began their restless wanderings that a few generations after led them all over the Pacific, after having been located for some generations in the Fiji group

Easter Island inscription.

and those parts. Tu-tarangi is shown on two lines, but there is a great discrepancy between them—as much as eleven generations. The line ending in Iro was supplied by Te Aia, who, as a historian, cannot claim the weight that the compiler of the other line has, which ends in Tangiia. This latter was Te-Ariki-tara-are, the last high priest of Rarotonga under the old régime, and therefore may be considered as the authority on such a subject. We have also a possible means of checking this line thus: If reference be made to the line which comes through Tangiia's

  1. Tu-tarangi (or Tu-talangi) is known to the Niue islanders as a deified ancestor, hut they have no genealogy from him.