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Show 210 bush and forest country, from the hilly regions, from the flat lands, and from the lake and river villages. The Pakehas had come from their previously embattled settlements all throughout the Land of The Long White Cloud. This was truly a momentous occasion. Drawing himself to his full height, his hearing regal and splendid in ceremonial dress, Roa snoke more to himself than his companions. "He kura tangata e_ kore a_ rckohanga. he kua whenua ke roko-hanga. People die, are killed, migrate, and disappear; not so the land, which remains forever." He lifted the tent flap and they stenned puickly inside. "Hello, my friends." Henry Busby extended his hand x^ith a sort of nuiet exuberance. "The culmination of our months of labor, and our fears, doubts, anxieties, and prayers," he smiled. Roa spoke in reply to his blue-eyed friend. "Yes, we have indeed come far to reach this dav. But there are yet many problems to be resolved. There are still manv dissenters among both our neonles ." "I know that is true, but it is a beginning," |
