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The Pa Maori
Contents
Contents
The fortified hill peaks of Rapa Island. Fortified places of Tonga. Mariner's account. Remarks by Captain Erskine; by Pritchard; by Rev. T. West; by Williams; by Captain Berry. Maori devices employed. Tahitian places of refuge. Fortified places of the Marquesas. Remarks by Porter; by Forster; by Cook. Maori features in Marquesan forts. Hawaiian forts and refuges. Stockaded villages of Samoa. Strongholds of Tongan raiders at Samoa. Fijian forts. Descriptions by Basil Thomson, Williams, Commodore Goodenough, Rev. A. Webb, Wilkes, Seeman, and Captain Erskine. Fijian hill forts resembled the pa maori of New Zealand. Fortified islets at Malaita. Hill forts of Solomon Isles. Fortified islet at Taumako. Fortified villages of New Guinea. The sloping fighting stage of the Maori is seen in New Guinea. Fortified places of the Caroline Group; of Sumatra; of Borneo; of the Hurons. Old fortified positions most numerous in New Zealand. The pa maori not a common feature of Polynesia. The unknown earliest settlers of New Zealand. The origin of the pa maori as a field for inquiry.
In this division of the paper are brought together scattered notices of fortified places in the isles of Polynesia and Melanesia. Those of Fiji and Tonga most closely resemble the pa maori, but it seems fairly certain that the Tongans acquired the art of constructing such places from the Fijians. The strongholds of Rapa island still await description, while in the Society Isles fortified places seem to have been little used, and we hear of no earthworks there. The fighting stage appears at Fiji, at Tonga, in the far away Marquesas, and in New Guinea. The Fijian forts are the most interesting of the island series for purposes of comparison with Maori types, so far as I am aware, but it seems probable that some interesting features of the New Zealand Fijian type of defensive works will be found to pertain also to parts of New Guinea.