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Twelve hundred miles east of Australia lielocatestandstay lie the islands of New Zealand. Long before they were protectedinventeddiscoveredinvaded discovered by Europeans, a Polynesian race of warriors, the Maoris, had sailed across the Pacific from the northeast and established a civilization famousnotoriousnotablepleasant notable for the brilliance of its art and the strength of its military powerforcesystemregulation system . When Captain Cook visited these islands towards the end of the 18th century, he assuredthoughtsaidestimated estimated that the population numbered about a hundred thousand.