Chap. III. CHARGE AGAINST COL. WAKEFIELD. 51 
Mr. Clarke, paid this pa a formal visit, with a view to 
some satisfactory arrangement of their grievances. On 
Colonel Wakefield stating that a portion of the pay- 
ment had been especially set aside, and sent hither by 
JVarepori for the inhabitants of this village, a written 
paper was handed in to the Governor by one of the 
assembled natives. It stated, in the Maori language, 
that certain things had been sent here by IVarepori as 
a present to his sister, who had married one of the men 
of the tribe ; and that this present had never been 
considered as payment for the land. The paper cor- 
rectly enumerated everything that had been included 
in this share of the property, which Warepori had 
intentionally made rather smaller than the others, 
though he took credit to himself, in addressing the Te 
Aro men afterwards, for raising them above their 
former condition of a slave-tribe, by giving them any. 
This I described in the fourth chapter of the first volume.* 
Mr. Clarke, in translating this paper, stopped at the 
word tuahine, '* sister," and stammered, and smiled, 
and turned to the Governor, and hummed and hawed, 
and looked at the paper again, and then looked at 
Colonel Wakefield, and finished by drawing a long 
face and being very grave. Upon being pressed by the 
Governor to explain what he meant, he shuffled, and 
smirked, and sneered ; and then held the paper out, and 
broadly asserted that it named these goods as the pay- 
ment which had been given to " a woman, whom 
" JVarepori had let Colonel Wakefield take on board 
" the Tory." The conception, and the manner of the 
insinuation, were both such as none but a low-minded 
man could have been guilty of. 
It was well known by every one who had been on 
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