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Let us retain some of our land for fire-wood. What are we to have for ourselves if we give it all to the Europeans? Rangitoto is my Tiki Tiki and great place." (Tiki means a greenstone ornament worn round the neck. Tiki Tiki is a knot hair on the crown of the head. - "It is right you should welcome us. We were friends long ago, before the new tikanga, or new order of things took place. We had also quarrels before then, but we should keep friends. Just look, Mr. McLean, the boundary we claim is the Rangitikei. Your people shall have one side; but our retaining possession of it will not be for ourselves, but for your people also; meaning