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A Message to the Dead

To thee, O Heuheu, Child of the Arawa Canoe, Descendant of Ngatoro-i-rangi and of Tuwharetoa, thy Pakeha friend sends greetings across the distance. ‘Twas thou who placed thy chieftain's cloak about his shoulders and looked to him as brother beloved! ’Twas thou who, during thy last days, shared with him thy tribal troubles and aspirations! And ’twas thou who, on thy death-bed, revealed to him a hidden “pa” of knowledge, the high palisades of which no White Man has yet scaled! Now hearken, O Ariki! The promise that was made to thee at the last will be fulfilled. Therefore, enough!