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"This collection of interesting facts about New Zealand, "The Dear Old Maori Land," also the legendary accounts and descriptions of Maori Life and Customs, and the mysterious migration of the intrepid Polynesian Vikings across the uncharted seas of the Pacific Ocean, have been gathered from various sources and put together with the earnest desire of making these "Fortunate Isles" more widely and better known."