314 LANGUAGE OF NEW ZEALAND. [PART II. 



In his claw (boka hoka, fork, beak?) he brings 



To me a salutation (hari rau, perhaps equivalent to the English 



"How do you do?") 

 I have finished : my thoughts are at a 

 Distance : tears are under my eyelids. 



As a specimen of native epistolary style I will 

 give the following letter from the chief E Reweti, 

 at Waitemata : 



E hoa E Paki ? 



Kia ronga mai koe ! Kua mate taku wahine eonu nga ra kahore 

 ano i kai kotou aroha kiau kia homai e rongoa motaku hoa kei 

 tona matenga te mate kei tona tinana i penei te kapura e hoa ki 

 aroha koe ki toku hoa kia mai e koe he rongoa. 



Heoi ano, 



NA TE REWETI. 

 (Translation.) 

 Friend Dieffenbach, 



Listen to me ! My wife is ill six days ; she does not eat at all ; 

 you all love me, and give me therefore medicine for my com- 

 panion ; her head aches, and in her body she has the fire (fever). 

 Friend ! have love to your friend, and give medicine to me. 



That is enough from 



TE REWETI. 



The following (the fifty-second chapter of Isaiah) 

 may serve as good specimens of translations into the 

 New Zealand language : 



Upoko 52. 



Maranga, maranga; kakahuria to kaha, e Hiona; kakahuria o 

 kahu wakapaipai, e Hiruharama, e te pa tapu ! Heoti ano hokite 

 haerenga mai ki a koe o te mea kokoti kore, o te mea poke. 



2 Ruperupea atu te puehu i a koe, wakatika ake, noho iho, e 

 Hiruharama: wetekina atu te mekameka i tou kaki, e te tamahine 

 herehere o Hiona. 



3 E penei mai ana hoki te kupu a Ihowa, Kua hokona kautia 

 atu koutou e koutou ano; na, ehara i te moni mana koutou e 

 wakahoki mai. 



4 Ta te mea hoki e penei mai ana te kupu a te Ariki, a Ihowa, 



