Moutoa 6 August 1850 Friend, McLean, Greetings to you there. This is what we here are thinking. We are wondering about the lack of reply from you to our letter. This is the second one, and again you may not reply. We are thinking that perhaps you have heard sly talk from someone, and that is the reason that you have not replied to our letter. We have had two meetings and the talk has been only of Patea, to give it all for you only to acquire. We have just [put aside?] some acreage for us, the same for all of us, young and old, 100. We agreed on this, were of one mind, and only you keep us waiting.