Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1879) (14773909014)

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Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Year: 1879 (1870s)

Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand

Subjects: Science

Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society

Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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who, it is said, visitedNew Zealand before the so-called migration hither from Hawaiki: there-fore it is that I place this legend first in order. In this legend, which is aparticularly interesting one, the Moa is mentioned twice ; but then only inthe most casual way—provokingly so ! I shall just give here the two shortsentences from that original Maori tale ; as I intend translating the wholeof this brief legend with explanatory notes shortly. Strangely enough, thetranslation of this tale given by Sir G. Grey (siqjra) omits one of those twosentences which mention the Moa, or I would willingly quote from hispublished translation. Of Ngahue it is said,—that he arrived in New Zealand and visited bothIslands ; and on his returning from the South, Arahura (= Westland), andon his way to the East Coast, Whangaparaoa (= Cape Kunaway), he * Polynesian Mythology, 1855.t Called in the Polynesian Mythology (p. 132), The Legend of Poutini and Whaiapu. TRANS. N.Z.INSTITUTE,V0L.I((.P1..I\ Tal. T

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