kava ceremonies."[186]

[181] Charles Forbes, in _Archaeologia_, xxxv. 496 (who gives
_Ho ha Mo-nga Maui_ as the name of the stones); (Sir) Basil
Thomson, _Diversions of a Prime Minister_, p. 382; _id._, "Notes
upon the Antiquities of Tonga," _Journal of the Anthropological
Institute_, xxxii. (1902) p. 81 (who gives _Haamonga_ as the
native name of the stones).

[182] (Sir) Basil Thomson, "Notes upon the Antiquities of
Tonga," _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxii.
(1902) p. 81. Maui is the great hero of Polynesia, known in
nearly every group of islands, generally regarded as a demigod
or deified man, but sometimes and in some places rising to the
dignity of full godhead. He appears, says Mr. E. Tregear, to
unite the classical attributes of Hercules and Prometheus. See
E. Tregear, _Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary_, p. 233,
_s.v._ "Maui."

[183] "_Tui-ta-tui, lit._ 'King-strike-King.'"

[184] (Sir) Basil Thomson, "Notes upon the Antiquities of
Tonga," _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxii.
(1902) p. 82.

[185] _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London_,
Second Series, ii. 77.

[186] Julius L. Brenchley, _Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S.
"Curacoa" among the South Sea Islands in 1865_ (London, 1873),
p. 132.

The tradition which connects the erection of the monument with the reign
of a Tooitonga named Tui-ta-tui is further countenanced, if not
confirmed, by a list of the Tooitongas, in which the name of Tui-ta-tui
occurs as the eleventh in descent from the great god Tangaloa.[187] This
Tui-ta-tui is believed to have reigned in the thirteenth or fourteenth
century of our era.[188] From the size and style of the masonry Sir
Basil Thomson is disposed to assign the monument to a later date. He
points out that for the quarrying and mortising of stones that weigh
some fifty tons apiece the craft of stone-cutting must have been fully
developed; and from a comparison of the megalithic tombs of the
Tooitongas which can be approximately dated, he infers that the craft of
stone-cutting in Tonga reached its culmination at the end of the
seventeenth century, though it was still practised down to the beginning
of the nineteenth century; for Mariner tells us that in his time a
professional class of masons was set apart for building the stone
sepulchral vaults of chiefs.[189] Yet on the w