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again your good country, for this bad country, and this 
very bad and unbelieving people. You will love your 
own friends more than the New Zealanders, and will 
not again leave them for this. These are our thoughts. 
We have love in our hearts for you ; we have love in 
our words ; and all our thoughts to you are one, at this 
residence. We are not good to your going ; we are not 
satisfied with the Buffalo for sailing from Wangaroa, 
when you are within. Go in peace, Mr. Yate, and see 
your friends in Europe ; and say my How-do-you-do to 
the whole of them, not passing over one. This is all, 
from him who was once your boy, but is now married 
to a wife at Mangakauakaua, me Hongi. 
LETTER XIX. 
FROM HAMO KOHI RAWITI, TO THE REV. W. YATE. 
Our father, Mr. Yate — Be strong in contention with 
your friends in England, whom you say you are going 
to ask to build us a House of Prayer at the Waimate. 
Why are English people loving in their hearts to us 
native men, whom they have not seen? Why do they 
wish us to have a large House of Prayer here ? Is it 
God that makes them love us, and give their money to 
help us ? We will cause the sweat to run down our 
bodies, when making bricks to build God's House with ; 
and we will work by day and by night to build it and 
make it large, if you will say how, and Mr. Clarke 
will say how. Go in peace, Mr. Yate, go to England, 
and pray for us, while we pray for ourselves. Perhaps 
we shall forget to pray for ourselves ; perhaps not. This 
is all, from your son, 
Hamo Kohi Rawiti, at the Waimate. 
