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tended to the native of New Zealand I brought to England, in supplying him with an abundant stock of valuable implements–the solicitude expressed for his instruction in the rudiments of the mechanical arts–and the approbation your Lordship was pleased to bestow upon his personal appearance, incline me to flatter myself that the following account of his native country will prove not altogether uninteresting to your Lordship.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's devoted, and
Most obedient Servant,
John Savage.
London, May 3, 1807.
