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6. My use of this name is a complete cop-out, as I have no idea what changes spoken Maori has undergone during the past millennium. If memory serves, modern Maori still has some cognate words with Tahitian (marae, for instance), and place-names tend to change more slowly than other words, so it isn't beyond imagining that the third-century Maori would call their home "Aotearoa." (There's some dispute these days as to whether there actually were any Maori on New Zealand at this point in time, but I'm going with those who say there were.)  Benjamin's visit will have some effects on their culture; we'll be returning to them from time to time.

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