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Show 2 - sociable person of nature, possessing a humor and shrewdness entirely his own, the Maori has wen the admiration and esteem of his fellow countrymen, his white friend the Pakeha. The old Maori lived his religion as we do not. His religion entered into every act of his daily life, impinged upon his industrial life, and usuroed the nlace of civil law. His firm belief in the close guardianship of his frods enabled the Maori to become the most skillful and daring of seafaring navigators. Though ignorant of compass and of metals, he ranred the vast waters from Easter Island to the far-flung Caroline Group, from Hawaii to Mew Zealand. In his primitive but seaworthy hand-crafted vessels he carried his colonizers of the many-Isled Sea of Kiwa, as he called the Pacific Ocean. He implanted his oarticular form of culture in many far-spread islands. He opened uo the sea roads across vast ocean soaces by the help of Tangaroa, the father of the seas, and pioneered sea trails that our ships travel today. Ancestors of the Polynesians dwelt far back in the night of time. Their origin is still largely a mystery debated by experts. The ancient Maori ancestor, Kupe, first named the new lend a thousand |
