Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume Two

The Boundaries of the Land

The Boundaries of the Land.

Now these are the names of the boundaries pointed out to and perambulated with Mr. McLean and Mr. Pelichet the surveyor when we went in a body to survey the land. Now we have in our assemblies at Waipukurau at Patanga at Te Aute and at this great meeting also of ours considered thought over wept over lamented and bidden farewell to these lands handed down to us by our ancestors as a lasting possession from us under the shining sun of this day to Victoria the Queen of England with its timber waters fertile spots and barren places and all appertaining to the said land as a lasting portion of land from us to the Queen of England for ever. And we will not permit any person to molest the Europeans upon the land.