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such feeling?, yet further. The last of these has a 
reference to the copies of Scriptural Translations 
printed for the natives. 
LETTER XIII. 
FROM THE CHIEF HOTAIWA, TO THE REV. W. YATE. 
I send one of my slaves with this book, written for 
me by Thomas Reo, for Mr. Yate, at the Waimate. 
Finished is the road through the wood, for your horse 
and you to come to my residence at Mangakahia. Come, 
come, come : we are waiting to hear you say, “ It is a 
good road.^^ Perhaps, you will say it is good — perhaps, 
bad. We were thirty-five men, three weeks and four days, 
and we all say, “ No, no payment must we have for this 
work.^^ It is a road for the Teachers to come to teach 
us, and teU us about Jesus Christ. This is our payment : 
this is our satisfaction. You have only been four times 
to Mangakahia : but now the road is made, you must 
come every moon, that we may not forget your words 
nor your books, nor the Catechism, which you teach us. 
Come soon, and hastily, our friend Mr. Yate. I have 
taken care of your axe and piece of soap. 
No more writing from Hotaiwa to the Preacher of 
the Gospel, sometimes at Mangakahia, and sometimes at 
the Waimate. 
LETTER XIV. 
FROISI TEMORENGA, TO THE REV. W. YATE. 
From Temorenga is this writing to Mr. Yate. My 
two friends carry on their back, in two baskets, nine 
tvvo^s of fowls. They are a gift-for-nothing from me to 
you, for you to eat on board the man-of-war, when on 
the great sea. Be jealous and careful of the waves on 
