LETTERS FROM NATIVES, 
256 
and clothes. Waha is gone into the wood, to shoot 
some pigeons and tuis for you. I have a little pig, that 
I will kill when your horse appears in sight ; and Piro^s 
wife will wash your potatoes, because you do not have 
them cooked with the skin scraped. Come, and point 
out, and call those who are to go to Waimate, that you 
say you will baptize. — No more writing from Atua 
Haere to Mr. Yate. Sit in peace. By Mura is this slate 
written: the words were spoken by Atua Haere, sitting 
by the side of Kekeao, from Pukenui. 
LETTER VIII. ' ^ 
Mr. Y ate — If you are willing to permit me to enter the 
sacred Church of Christ by baptism, my heart is very 
desirous to be baptized. I altogether believe that Jesus 
Christ is the Son of God ; and that He died for my sins, 
and for the sins of the world. Here I am : and have 
been, of old, a very wicked woman ; but now my heart is 
sore on account thereof I have been thinking of Jesus 
Christ’s love for me, though I am such a sinful woman; 
and that makes me sorrowful. It is my desire, for the 
future, to act as the Bible says, and to forsake all my sins, 
and to repent before God, for all I have done wrong; 
and to love Jesus Christ, because he loved me. These 
are my thoughts to you, Mr. Yate, from me, from Raru, 
who was so bad a woman as to be always quarrelling 
with her husband Paru, and teazing him ; and who twice 
beat her mother for scolding her child ; and who once 
stole things out of Mrs. Hamlin’s place for food. 
It is not a desire to have a new name, but because I 
love the Saviour, makes me wish to be baptized. This 
is all. Raru. 
