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weakness, & liunger, but uplield in ¡i woiirlcrFul maiincr iu :ill 

 muluol fellowship, and rejoicing in tlie love ot' God. Journals 

 were faithfully & regulaiiy kept, and report the exceptional 

 difficulties under which they lived. The fish supply on which 

 they had reckoned proved very disappointing, as did also the 

 birds, and animáis. They also forgot their supply of gun- 

 powder which was taken on by the Vessel. They made scveral 

 trips to Picton Island to take in supplies of their stores, 

 whielí they had taken the precaution to bury there. 



However the end of it all was, that after the lapse of 8 or 

 9 months they had all died of sickness & famine. 



Attempts had been made to forward them supplies from 

 Montevideo & the Falkland Islands without success. At length 

 shortly after the death of the Chief & last survivor, a Schooner 

 from the Falklands was chartered, & came with supplies. On 

 searching for the Mission party at Picton Island; a notice was 

 found painted on a prominent rock "Hasten to Spaniard Har- 

 bor, Aguirre Bay, we are starving. " 



On reaching the latter place they found it a scene of death 

 and ruin. Natives had been there, ransacked everything burnt 

 the Pinnaces, for the sake of the Iron on them. 



Such bodies as were found were buried, and all ^^•ritten 

 papers & books carefully collected & sent home. 



In reply to the carnest prayers of the dying Martyrs and 

 in accord with their wise counsels, the result of their painful 

 experience, the Mission was started afresh, & on a more 

 efficient plan, & met with very considerable success, not 

 however, without many dangers & difticulties. Many earnest 

 & faithful men engaged in its service, and in 1859 a massacre 

 occurred at Wullya, of the Crew of the Mission vessel, & a 

 Catechist, followed by the sacking of the vessel of everything 

 movable by the covetous natives. 



In 1861 I entered the service of this Mission, my duty being 

 to learn the language of the Natives, & to teach them the pre- 

 cepts & hopes of the Gospel. This course I followed in safety 

 at a Mission Station established in 185G in the Falklands. 

 To this Station some few natives were brought from time to 

 time in the Mission Vessel for instruction in religión and the 

 duties of civilized life, and wevc in due time exchanged for 

 others, and in this Avay many natives had come under Chris- 

 tian influences, and had acquired knowledge of farming &c. 

 Associated with others in this work I continued in its good 

 cause from 1861 to 1886. During these years I had well learned 



