4 May 1852 To McLean Friend, Greetings to you there in your home. Sir, this is what I have to tell you. My horse has died, it died on the 23rd of April. It had an abrasion on the skin on its breast and back. My friend kept riding it and for a short time he did not notice an abrasion on its skin. [When he did] he left it to heal, and then went on with his work; he dosed it with medicine and had it bathe in water, but the medicine affected it and my animal died. When I saw it all its back, skin and bones had wasted away. My suggestion to you is that you might relieve my suffering over my animal, for I think that it is not the same here, in that [we] don't really know the Pakeha methods [for this]. And this is why I wrote to you, that you might authorise the Pakeha to collect money for my animal, £3.0.0 - that's the price I paid for it. If you arrange this part, you will in future have the money [?]. If you write to me, I myself will go and get it from you, so that as soon as I arrive we can buy the horse. That's all I have to say to you. From me, from Karanema Te Nahu From Whakatu Te Hapuku is at Rangiwhakaoma, has not yet arrived here.