khara-bati

Updated: April 30, 2025

It throws a lurid light on the character of some of the Asiatic explorers who must have visited this part of the Eastern Pacific prior to the Europeans. In Maori the word Karioi means debauched, profligate, good-for-nothing. These are probably slightly worn down forms of the Persian Khara-bati, which has precisely the same significance as the foregoing.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.