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Kēnara, Tāmihana

1. (loan) (personal name) Thomas Kendall (1778?-1832) Early missionary in the northern Bay of Islands, arriving in 1814. Published the first book in Māori and together with Professor Samuel Lee of Cambridge University laid the orthographic foundations of written Māori.

Engari i te tau 1820, ka hoki atu a Te Kēnara ki Ingarangi… (TP 6/1908:1). / But in 1820, Mr Kendall returned to England…

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