Excerpt from From Darkness to Light in Polynesia: With Illustrative Clan Songs A few years ago (at the suggestion of Sir George Grey, and Sir James Hector, M.D., the New Zealand Government printed the earlier part 1 of the present volume for the use of scientists. A few copies were forwarded to the great public libraries of the United Kingdom. In New Zealand itself considerable interest was thus awakened by the discovery of the near kinship of the Hervey Islanders and the Maoris. It has occurred to me, that intelligent friends of Christian missions might be interested in comparing the past with the present. The present volume is intended to assist such an inquiry. In 1888 Her Majesty's Government assumed a protectorate over the group of islands known as the Hervey Islands, situated in the South Pacific Ocean between 18 Degrees and 22 Degrees south latitude, and 156 Degrees and 160 Degrees west longitude.' Frederick Moss, Esq., has been appointed the first British Resident. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.