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is more conversant with, or has more practised, all the Feejeean details 
of treachery, murder, torture, cannabalism, ete.—is, to say the least of 
it, remarkable, and it has been ascribed to two causes, That which I 
believe to be the true one—but I here express only my own individual 
opinion—and highly creditable, if such be the case, to the long con- 
tinued efforts of the missionaries to move his conscience, is of course 
ridiculed by those who derive their impressions of Feejee from the white 
traders and others of Levuka with whom they choose to associate, as we 
find the moral influence of the Mission gradually tending to lower them 
in the eyes of such as are beginning to appreciate the difference between 
right and wrong. I do not include all the white traders in this, for 
there are several honourable exceptions, at the head of whom I would 
place Mr. D, Whippy, the American Vice-Consul. At Levuka, a person 
of the name of James Merry (alias Ginger) was detained on suspicion 
of being one of the convicts who piratically seized the Lady Franklin. 
One of the boats of that vessel, and various other articles, furnished 
strong evidence in the matter, since rendered unnecessary by important 
disclosures, which will afterwards be adduced on the trial. Two others 
of the gang, Joseph Davis (alias Murphy), and Dennis Griffiths (alias 
Dan), who had lately made a murderous attack upon the crew of a 
small trader, were sent for to Kantavu, and brought safely on board, 
after the absence for three weeks of the party despatched for that purpose. 
Meanwhile the convicts had stolen a boat, and, with the aid of two 
Feejeean women, escaped to the large island of Naviti Levu, where they 
were ransomed from the natives for five muskets and a barrel of gun- 
powder, under circumstances most creditable to those sent from the — 
ship on this errand. At this time an American vessel (the Dragon, 
Captain Dunn) arrived from Sydney, on October 28th, and brought the 
news relative to the probability of Mr. Benjamin Boyd’s being still alive 
at Guadaleanar. We are now on our way to the last-mentioned place. 
Leaving the Feejees on November 24th, we reached Aneiteum on the : 
28th; we had visited this place last year, and the first object to attract — 
attention was the new church and mission-house at Aneligaubat, 
The progress of the Mission since our last visit had been most satisfac- | 
tory: the Jotw has firmly fixed itself in the last stronghold of heathenism 
—the central district of Itaho ; and war, which once engaged the rus 
tion of the natives of Aneiteum for about nine months in each year, - 
entirely ceased. Only three months ago a chief of Tanna "ue prec 
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