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said that the language is not rich, and the word 
waJiine, "woman," is one of those whose sense is 
qualified by the manner of uttering it, I have no 
hesitation in saying, that he then expressed the most 
infamous term that can be applied to a woman. " Who 
" is she," continued he, " that she should send her books 
" and her constables after me ? What have I to do 
" with her ? She may be Queen over the White people ; 
" I am the king of the Maori ! If she chooses to have 
" war, let her send me word, and I will stand up 
" against her soldiers. But I must have room ; I 
" must have no White people so near." 
I asked him, whether he had not signed a paper to 
say the Queen was his chief, when Mr. Williams 
brought it to him, and also on board the man-of-war ? 
He turned round sharply and said, " Yes ! what of 
" that? They gave me a blanket for it. I am still 
" a chief just the same. I am Mauperahal Give me 
" another blanket to-morrow, and I will sign it again. 
" What is there in writing?" 
Thus one of the most powerful of the 512 chiefs 
spoke of the much vaunted Treaty of JVaitang'i, which 
he had signed twice according to all accounts. 
I now turned to E Aim and the other chiefs, and 
asked them if it were true that all the land belonged to 
Rauperaha alone. I reproached them with dishonesty 
in selling the Manawatu and parts of the Otaki district 
as though it were their own. I reminded E Ahu, 
too, that he had often shown me how much land he 
possessed about Ohan, and that he had invited Mr. 
White to settle there ; and that no one had ever said 
before that it belonged to Rauperaha. 
E Ahu answered me, that when the chiefs of the 
Ngatiraukawa came down from Taupo, they had chosen 
the district out of Rauperaha s conquest in order to sit 
