Translation.
We the undersigned hereby agree to sell, make over and give
up for ever to the 1854. 26 August.Auckland District. Queen of England and her successors the Kings and Queens of England our
land being the Southern portion of the Barrier Island by name Rangitawhiri We
agree to give up all timber streams minerals and other appurtenances and we
hereby altogether Rancitawhiri, Great Barrier. relinquish our claims to this land its tapued places and to everything
thereupon or beneath the surface in consideration of the sum of two hundred and
twenty pounds, one hundred and twenty of which we receive now and the remaining
hundred to be paid in twelve months from this date. The boundaries of this land
are as follows commencing Boundaries. at Tokakuku on the eastern side of the Island and running through the
stream of the same name to Te Wharau and thence to Waka's boundary line named Te
Karamu thence to the summit of the mountain called te Ahumata and thence to a
place named Raihoa in the waters of the Sea and continuing the line of coast
till it adjoins Tokakuku. The claims of Mr. Abercrombie are included in these
boundaries and the balance due on account of these claims we now receive from
the Government. We fully agree to the matter embodied in this document In token
of which we affix our names and our marks on this twenty-sixth day of August in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
True translation.
C. O. Davis.
Received from the hands of Mr. McLean as a payment for our lands
described in
Receipt for £120, first instalment. this document one hundred and twenty pounds being the first instalment. Auckland,
August 29, 1854.
Himiona Purau,
and 9 others; belong to the
Matiwaru tribe living at Coromandel.
Witnesses—
C. O. Davis, Interpreter, and 4 others.