"King George's Speech on board H.M.S "Meander," addressed to the Honourable Captain Keppell."
"I return you my thanks for your kind visit. It is only thanks which your visit demands. The honour you have put upon me to-day is great. I thank you for these favors. But what is more a matter of thanksgiving is, that Britannia sent us the Gospel, and the Missionaries, and the sacred Book, that we may live thereby. These wc value more than men-of-war, or the visits of Queen Victoria's ships But we value these visits also. "It is great love shown (on weak and friendless people, that a wise and powerful nation, such as Britannia, should cast its shadow over us. Under this shade we live. " Your visits have always been friendly visits. H's it not been so from the beginning? I flatter you not. Ido not speak thus, because I am on board this great ship, or because one of the Queen of England's nobles is sitting beside me. I speak in truth. If rny departed ancestors could speak here to-day, would not they bear me witness? Ever since of old has not your course of conduct been uniformly gracious ? Wc know it has ; and, if every member of my body had a voice, the only word which it would speak would be Thanksgiving ! This is the end of my speech lo the Chief of this ship.''— Wcsleyan liltssionary Notices, 1851.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 87, 22 April 1852, Page 4
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238"King George's Speech on board H.M.S "Meander," addressed to the Honourable Captain Keppell." Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 87, 22 April 1852, Page 4
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