"The land, the women, the canoe, the greenstone, are our three great things. I was not the first to take to Europeans. They are new, to me. Do not talk of the evils of other places. Taratoa has come to me four times, to talk about land, about Mokohai, and Rangitoto. We were deciding boundaries before now. Let us not conceal. You will go on, Taratoa, with your talk, and I will go on with mine. Thakara, give up your speaking, as you have done speaking." - "All the people are the Queen's. I will not consent to my land at one time, and object at another. The Governor has all the people, - and I am his also."