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English
Maori
Puketapu 22 June 1852 Friend, McLean, Greetings to you, to you and Governor Grey. This is what I have to say. Listen, it's about the proposal for the land, that it be sold to the Pakeha. Don't say I'm telling lies. It is for you two to decide to buy the land, but agree with what I am saying here. It is true what I am saying to you about the price, that the price for the land should be very large indeed, because it was Iharaira who said the land should be given over for the Pakeha.
Puketapu 22 Hune 1852 E hoa, e Makarini, Tena ra koe, korua ko Kawana Kerei. Tenei ano taku kupu. Kia rongo mai korua, mo te tikanga mo te whenua, kia utua mo nga Pakeha. Kei mea korua he horihori taku korero. Mo korua ka whakaaetia te whenua kia utua e korua, me whakaae mai korua mo tenei korero taku. E pono ana tenei ki atu ki a korua mo te utu, kia nui whakaharahara te utu mo te whenua, no te mea na Iharaira tenei korerotanga mo te whenua kia tukua mo nga Pakeha.

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