I te taenga o te kaituhi a Mark Twain ki Wanganui i te tekau tau atu i 1890, ka whakatakariri a ia mō ngā kupu o te tuhinga i te whakapakoko e kī ana ‘he whiwhita, he mohoao’ ngā iwi o te pito whakarunga o te awa i ātete i te noho a te Pākehā. Kei tana pukapuka, a Twain in Australia and New Zealand (1897) te korero: ‘He tāmau whenua anō te tāmau whenua. E kore e taea te whakaiti i te kupu whiwhita... He tūturu aua māia. He toa rātou. Ka whawhai rātou mō ō rātou kāinga, mō ō rātou whenua. He toa katoa rātou.
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