SIX MEN ON A RAFT
Sir,-Having just read your article "Six Men on a Raft" I am reminded of certain evidence I gained re Peru in the Polynesian contact, In the course of my enquiries re the various, routes of the Maori to New Zealand I was in touch with the late Thomas Porter, the half-caste son of Colonel Porter. Mr. Porter ‘told me that he had spent three months in hospital in Lima where he cpuld converse with the local natives in his Maori tongue. Also he said that Peru was the only other place in which
he had ever seen the totara tree. An atlas I have, published 80 years ago, shows Peru to. be full of Maori place names. I should say that an atlas of that date contained more original names than one published tater, in commercial times. Surely nothing could be more Maori than "Titi-Kaka," though I notice a tendency now is to spell it with two "c’s" instead of two "k’s," which’ of course does not alter the original pronunciation. As far as I can see there is nothing to make anyone definite about one and one only route to Polynesia and New Zealand.
FRED C. S.
LAWSON
(Matakana).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 422, 25 July 1947, Page 5
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205SIX MEN ON A RAFT New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 422, 25 July 1947, Page 5
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