You don't need to have much of a brain to realize that if Maori were as amazing navigators and sailors as they make out to be, their seagoing crafts would be in abundance when the setters arrived here. Maoris never navigated here, they were first brought here as slaves, males only, no women by the Chinese pirate/trader Admiral Zheng He who abandoned them on the shore. How could slaves ever know anything about star navigation. This was taught to them from the people that were living here before they arrived who were our ancestors the Celts.

As the slaves didn't know where they came from they were called 'Populi de Mare ( Latin for people from the sea).

Ian Brougham

Wanganui