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An explanatory book
Talk
To the Queen

A good talk, hastily prepared
with the names
for the Governor
of New Zealand

William Marsh Te Rangikaheke
of Ngati Rangiwewehi, Rotorua
(Translation by D. R. Simmons

A minute description by a New Zealand chief, of all the ceremonies observed on the occasion of tattooing a chief and of the mode of performing the entire operation.