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CHIEFS. 
When a distinguished party of strangers arrive at a pa,, 
before they enter, the females ascend some stage or elevated 
spot, and from it wave a garment or branch, loudly invit- 
ing their visitors to enter, with the cry haere mai , haere 
mai, or nau mai , nau mai , they walk to the chief marae or 
court, and then the tangi commences ; after it is concluded, 
the strangers rub noses with their friends, or else speeches 
are made, afterwards food is brought in procession by the 
inhabitants in little baskets, each carrying one in his right 
hand, stretched out, with the left thrown back, all singing 
the Putu, or song of invitation, as they advance towards their 
guests, before whom they place the feast, and this concludes 
the entertainment. 
Since tobacco has been introduced smoking is a great 
delight, sometimes the pipe is passed from mouth to mouth ; 
since a very heavy duty has been placed upon it, the culture 
of tobacco has become general, and led to their making it so 
well that a tobacconist has been known to give them weight 
for weight of his best for theirs. They have also become 
pipe manufacturers. At Rotorua a soft kind of beautiful 
white stone is found which closely resembles the meerschaum, 
from which they cut out pipes with great skill, these are 
highly prized by European as well as Maori smokers. 
Chiefs. 
Great Warriors amongst us, and from remotest antiquity 
have been likened to animals, which are distinguished for 
their strength and courage. Above all is placed the lion : 
we read in Scripture of the lion of Judah, of a lion-like man 
being slain, and in our own history of the lion-hearted 
Richard. We have also the Royal Bengal Tiger, the bear, 
the leopard, the wolf : but the noblest of all is the lion, 
hence the Hindu title, sing , a lion, (not unlike in sound to 
our word king). Rajah Sing, the lion prince. Amongst the 
natives a different mode of comparison was adopted, they 
had no land animals, save the dog and the rat, though Te 
