. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. 196 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASM. but these are fast dying out, and so are their traditions and George Grey collected many of their poems, myths, and fables,and published them in a large octavo volume, and if you wish to knowmore on this subject you can see the book in our public CARVED fJEW ZEALAND CHEST. Fred asked if th
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. 196 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASM. but these are fast dying out, and so are their traditions and George Grey collected many of their poems, myths, and fables,and published them in a large octavo volume, and if you wish to knowmore on this subject you can see the book in our public CARVED fJEW ZEALAND CHEST. Fred asked if they were diminishing in numbers as rapidly as thepeople of the South Sea Islands had diminished since the advent of thewhite strangers. Yes, was the reply, but civilization has had less to do with theirreduction than the quarrels among themselves. When Captain Cooktook possession of the islands, it is thought there were 120,000 Maorisliving here; to-day there are less than 50,000. Before the Vvdiites camehere the Maoris were divided into eighteen nations or great tribes, andthe nations were subdivided into tribes, of which each had its chiefwhom it acknowledged. Each tribal chief regarded the head of hisnation as his lord and obeyed his orders. The nations were constantly at war with each other, and then, too,the tribes of any one nation might be at war among themselves. TheMaoris loved war for its own sake, vastly preferring it to peace, how-ever much it might inconvenience them. Some of their ways were pe-culiar, and quite at variance with E
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