Ethnology of the Maoris.
* ' I Ex-Chiet Judge Fenton has just published a very learned work on the ethnology of the Maoris. His conclusions may be gathered from the following extract : — The sum of our investigations, I submit, is — (1) that the Maoris are the same people aa the Maruts, Moors or Moris of the Malay Archipelago, the Mahri or Homeritai and Hirayarites of South Arabia, and that their eponymic ancestor is Himyar, the third m descent from Joktan tha son of Eber, and ancestor of the Hebrews ; and (2) that tha other tribes of Polynesia are inombora of the same great family and nation, branching off, genealogically speaking,, from the same stock m the epoch of Himyar. And that they all, under the nam«s of Chaldeans, Babylonians, Cushltea,' Akkadians, or Ethiopians, dwelt to- , gether with representatives of all the Noachic families of man m the plains of ; Shinar, from the very earliest ages, ' speaking a language which bore as much ; resemblance to the Maori language of today as the Aramaic of Abraham and his ancestors does to the existing Hebrew of that patriarch's descendants — probably a | much greater resemblance.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 12, 12 June 1885, Page 2
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189Ethnology of the Maoris. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 12, 12 June 1885, Page 2
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