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A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica

8 pointsby johnny313almost 4 years ago

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perihelionsalmost 4 years ago
That was a bit of a bait-and-switch: there&#x27;s essentially no information about pre-modern Māori or Polynesian journeys to Antarctica.<p>I&#x27;ve found the open-source text of the fragment of the oral story that was mentioned (recorded by a British historian in 1899). The fragment excerpted is in Ch. 7 of the wikisource version. Note that Wikipedia strongly warns that this historian is an unreliable source.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hawaiki_The_Original_Home_of_the_Maori" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hawaiki_The_Original_Home_of_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Percy_Smith_(ethnologist)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Percy_Smith_(ethnologist)</a><p>(<i>&quot;...he was more uncritical and framed hypotheses on what now seems slender linguistic and traditional evidence&quot;; &quot;...it is now generally accepted that much of his work on the Maori is unreliable&quot;</i>)