Three Questions.

Was the Maori a good tracker or did he ever employ the art at all? Did he ever communicate with his friends by bird calls? Could he send messages or reports over wide distances by some “wireless” method of his own?

In regard to the first of these three points I do not think the Maori was ever a tracker. He did not need to track to gain his dinner; indeed there were no indigenous animals that one could trail; and he does not seem to have used the art in warfare. Like all savages he had good eyesight and no doubt observed things quickly, but that he ever deliberately traced the footprints of a foe through bush and over moor and fen seems foreign to the genius of the race, although he may have done so in isolated cases.