Feby. 1st 1849 Wairarapa Friend the Governor of Port Nicholson, Greetings, the regard of the natives is great for you. First of all, when Mr. Bell(?) and Clarke came, the land was withheld from them. Now the thing is changed, and the land is given to your officer, Mr. Kemp, but when the price was named to you by the Maories, you looked upon it with displeasure. Nevertheless look with friendship upon us who have now given over the land to you for the white people, that they may come even now in this year. Although you are afraid of the floating(?) of the price, let a body of white people be sent, that the declaration we have made to sell the land (may not have been in vain in the eyes of the other party) I have nothing more to say, save that the boundary of the land has been traversed by Mr. Kemp. Signed Ngairo One of the Chiefs of the Selling Party. True Translation