Excerpt from The Stars of Maoriland Of all the stars that shine upon us on cloudless nights, how many of them are there that we can point to and name? In olden days every Maori would call the stars by their musical Maori names. He watched for their rising and setting, he planted his crops when the stars were favourable, and his canoes on their long ocean voyages were guided by the stars. He loved the beauti ful Children of Light. 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.