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在新西兰二百五十七万居民中,毛利族人(Maori)占十八万,他们是新西兰最老的居民。毛利族人属波利尼西亚族,马来—波利尼西亚语系。他们最初住在亚洲的东南部。一千年前,他们飘洋过海,乘着独木舟,来到现属新西兰、位于南太平洋的科克群岛中的腊洛当加(Rarotonga)岛(南纬21°,西经169°45′)。1350年,他们又来到新西兰的北岛,从此定居下来。西方航海者最早(1642年)来到新西兰的是荷兰人塔斯曼。1769年,英国航海家科克抵达新西兰。1840年,英国殖民者霍布森用威胁诱骗的办法,与毛利族酋长订立了威坦哲条约,强迫新西兰承认英国为宗主国。在科克
Of New Zealand’s 2.57 million inhabitants, Maori occupy 180,000, the oldest inhabitants of New Zealand. Maori polynesian, Malay-Polynesian. They first lived in southeastern Asia. A thousand years ago they crossed the sea and took canoes to New Zealand, now on the island of Rarotonga in the Cork Islands of the South Pacific (latitude 21 ° South, longitude 169 ° 45 ’). In 1350, they again came to New Zealand’s North Island, from which they settled down. The earliest Western voyager (1642) came to New Zealand is Tasman. In 1769, British navigator Cork arrived in New Zealand. In 1840, the British colonel Hobson threatened to trick the Maori chiefs into the Treaty of Waitangi, forcing New Zealand to recognize Britain as the suzerainty. In Cork