Author : Polynesian Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Release : 2017-10-13
ISBN : 9780266260752
Language : En, Es, Fr & De
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Excerpt from The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1900, Vol. 9: Containing the Transactions and Proceedings of the Society This raises the question: was not some one of this fair race in the far distant past named Tangaroa, who was one of the early navigators, and hence the position that Tangaroa holds in Maori tradition as Neptune See on this point, the story of the introduction of the knowledge of the Breadfruit tree to the Polynesian in this Journal, vol. Vii, p. 220. Whatever the true origin of this tradition may be, it is clear that by the middle of last century, the remembrance of it had become extremely attenuated, and the light-coloured people had, to the Maoris, lost their tangible forms, and become Fairies inhabiting the misty cloudy mountains, but still having human forms and attributes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.