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his sentences. In those cases, however, I put nothing down : 
what follows now is, therefore, only what I heard well, and I 
think it is pretty correct, as far as it goes. 
" He began by saying, that the dispute which had termi- 
nated in the Wairau affair was occasioned by the land not 
being paid for. When the Port Nicholson purchase was 
made, only one tribe met ; and the natives got angry because 
a few only among them were applied to to sell and got the 
payment. The Tory anchored one day off (some place), and 
Wide-awake wanted to purchase the Taitapti* He (Baupe- 
ahd) sold him Blind Bay and Massacre Bay. Totaranui\ 
was also sold, and that was all that he disposed of. Ware- 
pori sold Port Nicholson, and he and his friends sold Blind 
Bay and Massacre Bay. He and Hiko sold the land ; but 
they never consulted Rangihaeata or any other chiefs. When 
Wide-awake came to Port Nicholson afterwards, he claimed, 
places which he {Rauperaha) had never sold. He then was 
proceeding to state what payment he had received; but the 
Governor stopped him, saying it was unnecessary to go into 
that point. However, Rauperaha said he meant it to show 
why he turned the Europeans off land ; and that Wide- 
awake claimed the Porirua district, though he had only 
given a cask of tobacco for it. As soon as Rangihaeata heard 
of these sales, he was in a great rage ; he was up the country 
at the time, and when he came down the goods had been dis- 
tributed. Rangihaeata was at Wairau when a party of sur- 
veyors commenced surveying there; he and his party went 
over to Nelson, and warned the chief surveyor to desist. 
They also went to Wide-awake's house (Arthur), and had a 
korero about the land. Wide-awake said he would take pos- 
session by force, if necessary, as they had sold the land ; and 
if the natives resisted he would make a tie of them. Ran- 
gihaeata said he would never be tied up, even if he should be 
shot for it. Captain Wakefield replied, that if he resisted 
the law, he would be shot. The Maori then returned home, 
and Wide-awake sent more surveyors, Barnecoat and 
* Native name for Blind Bay, literally " sacred tide." 
t Native name for the north end of Queen Charlotte's Sound, 
