1 August 1851 Friend, McLean, I have great affection for you. And I've this to say to you. I have heard of your proposal for the north, for Puketapu, that you will buy it. By the time I heard that your letter had gone to Arama Karaka, for the news came to me from Wareroa. When I heard this then I pondered because you had not put your intention to me. Look agreeably on this letter, if you approve another's then also approve this one. It is my word of honour as a man to you, and it is an offer to you to marry my daughter. McLean, your shoulders are the trees, your branches of the hinau, and your seeds. It is the same for me [?], for the Maori, you can argue on about that place but he will not listen even up to his death, for that is the Maori way. And similarly with me, if you keep arguing about that place. If I were to give over land to you, then I would not lie about it