. Les légendes de Ma-ui--un demi dieu de Polynésie . d'autres îles du Pacifique par certains étudiants ouvrira des faits nouveaux et importants. À Tahiti, sur l'île Raiatea, un grand prêtre orprophète vivait il y a longtemps. Il était le prophète de Tahiti. Il n'était probablement pas Maui la demi-migod. Néanmoins, il était representedas possédant des pouvoirs prophétiques très étranges. Selon l'historien Ellis, qui a passé huit ans à 1830 dans la Société et les îles hawaïennes, ce prophète Maui a clairement prophétisé le fait de faire venir un canot antidéclencheur de certains pays étrangers. Un stabilisateur est

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. Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia . of otherislands of the Pacific by some student will open upother new and important facts. In Tahiti, on the island Raiatea, a high priest orprophet lived in the long, long ago. He was knownas Maui the prophet of Tahiti. He was probably notMaui the demigod. Nevertheless he was representedas possessing very strange prophetical powers. According to the historian Ellis, who previous to1830 spent eight years in the Society and HawaiianIslands, this prophet Maui clearly prophesied thecoming of an outriggerless canoe from some foreignland. An outrigger is a log which so balances acanoe that it can ride safely through the treacheroussurf. The chiefs and prophets charged him with statingthe impossible. He took his wooden calabash and placed it in apool of water as an illustration of the way such aboat should float. Then with the floating bowl before him he utteredthe second prophecy, that boats without line to tie thesails to the masts, or the masts to the ships, shouldalso come to Tahiti. 84. Hawaiian BatUng Pool. When English ships under Captain Wallis and Cap-tain Cook, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, visited these islands, the natives cried out, O thecanoes of Maui—the outriggerless canoes. Passenger steamships, and the men-of-war from thegreat nations, have taught the Tahitians that boatswithout sails and masts can cross the great ocean, and again they have recurred to the words of theprophet Maui, and have exclaimed, O the boats with-out sails and masts. This rather remarkable prophecycould easily have occurred to Maui as he saw awooden calabash floating over rough waters. Mauis improvement upon natures plan in regardto certain birds is also given in the legends as a proofof his supernatural powers. White relates the story as follows: Maui re-quested some birds to go and fetch water for him. Thefirst one would not obey, so he threw it into the water.He requested another bird to go—and it refused, sohe threw

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