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Maori
The Pakeha became angry at my words and that was the end of it. I went to Kaikokirikiri, and then on to the Maori at Te Pokohiwi. And I said, 'Well, if you will talk to me that would be good. I left my pigs on my land.' And he said, 'Sir, you know that my hatchet [will come down on] any of your pigs straying onto my land.' I said, 'Yes, but this is the balance, that you have the open country and we have the forest. And your cows graze on our parts.' He then said, 'Yes, but Korou[?] drove them here.' And I said, 'He couldn't manage to drive them over all the land', and 'Pay for one of my pigs.' He said, 'I never saw [anything] on the morning the pigs which attacked were shot.' So that was the end of it. I think he was right, for those of us who saw that [said] they did not attack that morning. The names of those people were Tamati and Hoera. But later it was seen that he was [or, 'they were'] wrong.
A riri ana mai te Pakeha korero ana au i nga kupu, a, ka mutu ai. I tae au ki Kaikokirikiri, a ka haere au ki Te Pokohiwi ki nga Maori. Ka mea atu au, 'Ae, mehemea i korero koe ki au, e pai ana. Ko aku poaka i waiho i taku kainga noho ai.' Ka mea mai tera, 'E ta, e mohio koe noku te patiti puta noa ko a koutou poaka e haere ana ki taku whenua.' Ka mea atu au, 'Ae, tenei te utu nou te parae, no matou te ngaherehere. Ko o koutou kau kei runga i o matou wahi e kai ana.' Ka mea mai tera, 'Ae, na Korou[?] e wiu mai.' Ka mea atu au, 'E kore e taea te wiu puta noa i nga whenua katoa.' Ka mea atu au, 'Kia utua tetahi o aku poaka.' Ka mea mai tera, 'Kaore i kite au i te ata i puhia ai nga poaka e kai ana.' Heoti ka mutu. Hua atu i tika tana kupu nei, na o matou ano i kite kaore i kai i taua ata. Ko nga ingoa o nga tangata ko Tamati, ko Hoera; no muri i kitea ai te he o tona.

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