However, "The Concise Māori Dictionary" (Kāretu, 1990) defines the word "pākehā" as "foreign, foreigner (usually applied to white person)", while the "English–Māori, Māori–English Dictionary" (Biggs, 1990) defines "Pākehā" as "white (person)". Sometimes the term applies more widely to include all non-Māori. No Māori dictionary cites as derogatory. Some early European settlers who lived among Māori became known as "Pākehā Māori". The etymology of is unknown, although the most likely sources are the words or , which refer to an oral tale of a "mythical, human like being, with fair skin and hair who possessed canoes made of reeds which changed magically into sailing vessels". When Europeans first arrived they rowed to shore in longboats, facing backwards. In traditional Māori canoes or "", paddlers face the direction of travel. This is supposed to have led to the belief that the sailors were supernatural beings. In her book "The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas", the anthropologist Anne Salmond recorded that tribal traditions held that Toiroa, a tohunga from Mahia, had predicted the coming of the Europeans. He said "", meaning "it is the pakerewhā", red and white strangers. There have been several dubious interpretations given to the word. One claims that it derives from , the Māori word for "pig", and , one of the Māori words for "flea", and therefore expresses derogatory implications. There is no etymological support for this notion—like all Polynesian languages, Māori is generally very conservative in terms of vowels; it would be extremely unusual for "pā-" to derive from "". The word itself may come from the proto-Polynesian root "*puaka", known in every Polynesian language (" in Tongan, Uvean, Futunian, Rapa, Marquisian, Niuean, Rarotongan, Tokelauan, and Tuvaluan; it evolved to the later form in Samoan, Tahitian, some Rapa dialects, and Hawaiian); or it might be borrowed or mixed with the English "porker". It is hard to say, since Polynesian peoples populated their islands bringing pigs with them from East Asia, but no pigs were brought to Aotearoa by them.