Captain King, "Transactions on returning to Sandwich Islands," &c., continuation of Cook's voyages, Pinkerton (xi. 730) says on the contrary: "The inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands are undoubtedly of the same race with those of New Zealand, the Society and Friendly Islands, Easter Islands, and the Marquesas. This fact, which, extraordinary as it is, might be thought sufficiently proved by the _striking_ similarity of their _manners_ and _customs_, and the general resemblance of their _persons_ is established beyond all controversy by the _absolute identity_ of their language." Shortland says that the New Zealanders, "when speaking of any old practice, regarding the origin of which you may inquire, have the expression constantly in their mouths, 'E hara i te mea poka hou mai; no Hawaika mai ano.'--It is not a modern invention; but a practice brought from Hawaiki, Sandwich Islands)."--Shortland's "Traditions of the New Zealanders," p. 61. We may agree, then, that the Mandans might have come by this route. Is there anything which makes it probable that they came? Well, yes; in the first place their name. Mr Catlin tells us ("O-kee-pa," p. 5), "The Mandans (Nu-mak-ká-kee, _pheasants_, as they call themselves) have been known from the time of the first visits made to them, to the day of their destruction, as one of the most friendly and hospitable tribes on the United States frontier." It transpires, therefore, that they are called _pheasants_. Is the pheasant a native of America?--on the other hand, is it not common on the opposite Asiatic continent, and on the islands adjacent to it from New Guinea to the Corea? I have never heard of the pheasant in the American continent;[225] but in reading the accounts of the missionaries of the Corea (the only foreigners who have penetrated into the country), I read, "that clouds of _pheasants_ and birds of all kinds perch at night in the branches of the trees" ("Life of Henri Dorie," translated by Lady Herbert; Burns & Oates, p. 77); and if the reader will turn to p. 79 in the same Life, and will compare the description of the Coreans, which he will find there, with the description and portraits of the Mandans in Mr Catlin's "O-kee-pa," pp. 4, 5, he will, I think, recognise a sufficient resemblance to warrant and sustain the presumption created by their name.[226]