VALEDICTORY LETTER FROM THE CHIEF TE ARA TE TINANA, OF RANGITOTO, ORAKEI.
Auckland, Dec. 29, 1853. Friend, the Governor, — Salutations to you. My affection for yon is great. I should come up to see you but am ill. You are going away, O Friend, and your children will be left helpless, r.s those driven ashore by the wind and waves, — the children which you have reared. When you, tit; Father, are gone, there will lie no protector for your children 3ly thought is, that when you shall have seen your relatives, and your own land, you should come hack to your children. Go hence, O Father, — the Father of all the Tribes. Go, carrying willi you the love of all your children. While I sit,-a fearful trembling Rends this heart oppressed with grief; Restless as the winds, resembling Kahakaha's aspen leaf.* Governor! this aiiNious feeling Prompts me to invoke thy stay; But upon thu mind are stealing, Thoughts, that thou must haste nwny. From your loving friend, (Signed) Ti: Aiia Te Tinana. To Governor Grey, Auckland,
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 131, 29 December 1853, Page 4
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176VALEDICTORY LETTER FROM THE CHIEF TE ARA TE TINANA, OF RANGITOTO, ORAKEI. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 131, 29 December 1853, Page 4
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