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Maori
and for you? Will he give me some for all the years ahead? He has lied to me. He said to me that he would pay me in one month. Now I have seen that month go by, and his promise has meant little. What I said to him was that my promise to him would be fulfilled, but with this matter we are all in trouble. It would be good for the cows to go back to your land in town. Friend, it remains as a fighting matter for us, when we should be living in peace. Now, according to our custom of old, well, if someone's pigs went eating another's taro or kumara, they would be killed, and it would be reason for a fight and so too the owner of the pigs would be beaten and killed. That's all I have to say to you. From Hoera Friend, I say to him to give me some payment for my wheat £2. You might speak to Captain King.
ma koutou? Koia e homai tetahi maku mo nga tau katoa e haere ake nei? Kua korero teka ia ki au. Kua mea ia ki au, me utu au e ia i te marama kotahi. Na, titiro ana au i taua marama, na, kihai iti tana owati. Ko taku ki ki a ia, i tika taku owati ki a ia, na, ko tenei mea ake tatou raruraru ai. E pai ana nga kau ki hoki mai ki to koutou whenua i te taone. E hoa, kua waiho hei take whawhai ma tatou, otira kia noho pai ai tatou. Na, ko ta matou ritenga o mua, na, ka haere te poaka a tetahi ki te kai i te taro ranei, i te kumara ranei a tetahi tangata, ka mate, a, ka waiho hei take whawhai, a, ka patua rawatia te tangata nana nga poaka, a mate rawa. Heoi ano aku korero ki a koe. Na Hoera E hoa, e mea ana au kia homai e ia he utu ki au, mo taku witi, kia £2. Mau e korero atu kia Kapene Kingi.

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