"We have not received these rights at your hands, but have been our inheritance from the earliest times. We shall never submit to the coersive measures you have used at Port Nicholson and other parts of the world. How is it, McLean, that all Europeans with whom I converse, are opposed to the measure of Government?" A long argument between this Chief and myself ensued, which attracted the attention of a great number of natives sitting around us. He maintained, what he had been adducing in his argument against the Government; the leading part of his argument was a strong aversion to the Government which would in the least deprive them of their Chieftainship, or lessen them in the eyes of their people. In preference to such a Government, in which he benefited nothing, he would, rather have traders who would bring blankets and tobacco, etc., and neither interfere with his rights, his lands, or his customs. He said these traders, and indeed all Europeans, were a bad race of people, addicted to theft and falsehood. Otherwise they would not require the use of so many locks to their doors and boxes. "One of then robbed me and my brother of a number of pigs" - which he would satisfy himself for, from some passing Europeans. To which Heu Heu nodded with a smile. Never Mind the Pakeha or the pigs; tantamount to a free forgiveness of the crime. Having made occasional comments of Iwikau's argument, which did not at first