. The history of mankind . Boat of Niue, Savage Islands. (After a model in the Godeffroy collection.) A third region is even more important by reason of its local connection withthe Polynesian legends of migrations. It embraces the Hervey or Cook Islands,the Tubuai or Austral Islands, the Paumotu or Low Islands, and the Society. Boat of the Hermit Islands. (From the same Islands. To supplement the instances already given we may mention theinvoluntary journey of Williams in a boat from Rarotonga to Tongatabu, andthat of several natives from Aitutaki to Niue ; in both cases distances of a thousa
. The history of mankind . Boat of Niue, Savage Islands. (After a model in the Godeffroy collection.) A third region is even more important by reason of its local connection withthe Polynesian legends of migrations. It embraces the Hervey or Cook Islands,the Tubuai or Austral Islands, the Paumotu or Low Islands, and the Society. Boat of the Hermit Islands. (From the same Islands. To supplement the instances already given we may mention theinvoluntary journey of Williams in a boat from Rarotonga to Tongatabu, andthat of several natives from Aitutaki to Niue ; in both cases distances of a thousandmiles were traversed in a westerly direction. Those natives of Manihiki who weredriven by a storm to the Ellice group in 1861, and there spread the firstChristian teaching, accomplished a still longer course. Between the SocietyIslands, especially Tahiti, and the Paumotu group, a particularly close connectionhas been established by frequent castings-away both with and against the have been known here also in which persons have been driven southward, 164 THE HISTORY OF MANKIND but never beyond the tropic, so that no connection has been formed with NewZealand. Finally, we have evidence in involuntary journeys made from Tahiti toByam Martin and Bow Islands that, especially during the summer, it is possible fo
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