may occur to you, for which I shall be glad to give you in return any similar intelligence from this quarter. I remain, etc. (Sigd.) Don. McLean. P.S. A report has just reached me that the Mokau tribe are greatly enraged at Pauparaha's capture and are making preparations to revenge it if possible, for the truth of this I cannot answer but I trust they may not pay us a visit in our present defenceless state tho' I dare say with a little fair play we should give them some thing even now for their pains if they do come. D. McL.