Maoris and Highlanders.

That great friend of the Maori, Sir Donald Maclean—who came to New Zealand soon after 1840 and died in Napier in 1877—was the first pakeha, I think, to remark on the many close resemblances between his own Scottish Highland folk and the Maori tribesmen. In his MS. diary he mentioned such traits in common as the wearing of the kilt, the coronach and the Maori tangi, the chanted elegies, the war customs. He felt quite at home among the Maoris very soon after his arrival on the shores of the Hauraki.