"About this period a mutual friendship began to exist between us; confidence took place of timidity; and now, instead of permitting only a few to visit the shore at a time, they fitted up the garden of a temple as a sort of general arsenal for us;…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink over wash: E.M. Hocken; margin below image in ink: George Rennie T.M. Hocken; label in iron gall ink: making a move - very truly yours, George Rennie Jr; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand:…