Chap. XVII TREATY OF WAITANGl. 459 
" we, the separate and independent chiefs of New 
" Zealand, claiming authority over the tribes and 
" territories which are specified after our respective 
" names, having been made fully to understand the 
" provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept and enter 
" into the same in the full spirit and meaning thereof. 
" In witness of which we have attached our signa- 
" tures or marks at the places and dates respectively 
" specified. 
" Done at TVaitangi this 6th day of February in 
" the year of our Lord 1840." 
(512 signatures.) 
The greater part of these complicated and formal 
expressions could not be translated into Maori, which 
had no words to express them. Here follows an exact 
and literal translation of the Maori version which is 
also published officially : — 
" Here's Victoria the Queen of England, in her 
" gracious remembrance towards the Chiefs and 
" Tribes of New Zealand, and in her desire that their 
" Chieftainships and their lands should be secured to 
" them, and that obedience also should be held by 
" them, and the peaceful state also, has considered it as 
" a just thing to send here some Chief to be a person 
*' to arrange with the native men of New Zealand, that 
" the Governorship of the Queen may be assented to 
" by the native Chiefs in all places of the land and of 
** the islands. Because, too, many together are the 
" men of her tribe who have sat down in this land and 
" are coming hither. 
" Now, it is the Queen who desires that the Go- 
" vernorship may be arranged that evils may not 
" come to the native man, to the White who dwells 
*' lawless. 
" There ! Now the Queen has been good that I 
