Kamehameha IV
January 11, 1855 · Hawaii · Impromptu remarks made in English to the foreigners present, after his address on the day he took the oath as king. The book says they were taken down at the time by a practised stenographer.
I therefore say to the foreigner that he is welcome. He is welcome to our shores--welcome so long as he comes with the laudable motive of promoting his own interests and at the same time respecting those of his neighbor. But if he comes here with no more exalted motive than that of building up his own interests at the expense of the native--to seek our confidence only to betray it--with no higher ambition than that of overthrowing our Government, and introducing anarchy, confusion and bloodshed--then is he most unwelcome!
Speeches of His Majesty Kamehameha IV (1861) · remarks to foreign residents on the day he took the oath to the Constitution
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1864 · New Zealand · The answer sent back when the British general offered the surrounded garrison an honourable surrender under a flag of truce. Reeves does not say who spoke; he calls it simply their reply. The English is Reeves's; the Māori ends "ake, ake, ake", for ever and ever and ever.
Enough! We fight right on, for ever!
Heoi ano! Ka whawhai tonu, ake, ake, ake.
Words given in Māori in W. P. Reeves, The Long White Cloud (1898)
Te Rauparaha
1843 · New Zealand · What he is said to have cried, arms stretched to the sky, when a gun went off among the English party at the Wairau and he believed death was upon him. Buick writes that a chief would utter this cry only in the deepest stress. He did not die that day; he lived six more years. The English is Buick's.
Farewell, O sun, farewell, thou world of light; come on, O night, come on, O death.
Hei kona e te ra, hei kona e te ao marama — haere mai e te po, haere mai e te mate
Words given in Māori in T. Lindsay Buick, An Old New Zealander, or Te Rauparaha (1911)
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