"TO Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, the first kingdom of all the kingdoms of the world. "We the chiefs and rulers and governors of Niu -Fekai desire to pray Your Majesty, if it be your pleasure, to stretch out towards us your mighty hand, that Niu may hide herself in it and be safe. We are afraid lest some other powerful nation should come and trouble us, and take possession of our island, as some islands in this quarter of the...