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whether they were inhabited or not by other owners. 
And he had acquired the idea of ownership to this 
wild and desert district by the wish which we had ex- 
pressed, of paying a larger sum than he had yet seen 
for a larger tract of land than any for which he had 
yet heard treated, in order to receive a population 
beyond his imagination of numbers, and to be made 
available with a rapidity beyond what he could con- 
ceive. It was probably the first time that he had 
thought of the boundaries to the waste land over which 
he claimed dominion ; and the haughty way in which 
he pointed out, on being asked the question for the 
first time, that he was " monarch of all he surveyed," 
had some affinity to his former assumption that the 
first ship he had ever seen from Europe was come out 
expressly to him. They were both rapid adoptions 
of new ideas, which our suggestions and offers of a 
new state of things induced him to seize and confirm. 
Colonel Wakefield was accordingly obliged to buy 
of the natives, not certain lands within certain boun*- 
daries, but the rights, claims, and interests of the con- 
tracting chieftains, whatsoever they might be, to any 
land whatever within certain boundaries. Such were 
the terms of all the deeds afterwards executed, and 
such were the terms of the Company's purchases as 
explained fully to the chiefs themselves. 
" What will you say," continued Puakawa, " when 
" many, many White men come here, and drive you all 
" away into the mountains ? How will you feel when 
" you go to the White man's house or ship to beg for 
" shelter and hospitality, and he tells you, with his eyes 
" turned up to heaven, and the name of his God in 
" his mouth, to be gone, for that your land is paid for ? " 
I was sensibly affected by his earnest depiction of 
this scene, and the sincerity which his face reflected as 
