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In the Chinese province of Yunnan there are tribes of aborigines ---not Chinese--called Mau-tze or soil-children, who salute as they did when first observed by Marco Polo in the thirteenth century by rubbing noses." The identity of this mode of salutation with that practised by the Maoris, the approximation of their names in sound and signification--for the word Maori signifies … > 1878 - Wells, B. The History of Taranaki > CHAPTER I: THE MAORIS. www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/search.php