Ngamotu 16 February 1851 Friend, McLean, Greetings. My affection for you continues even after you left to organise the parts of land at Rangitikei and left behind us and the Pakeha living in our settlement, and then went off to Ahuriri, with your young ones, Wepiha, Te Haeana, and all the people who accompanied you to that place. Young man, I continue to wait to have you in my presence. The bad news came to us that you had overturned in the Ahuriri river, and I continue to look for your love and [to express] our love for you. For us, when a parent dies, the children wander aimlessly about, bereft of their old one: 'What of the love that wells up, is it possible to hide it?' Sir, McLean, your letter has come to me about your travelling around to make arrangements at those places, and to see the advantages of