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lying about, remain to sliow that a dwelling once stood here. 

 At the well there were a variety of beautiful flowers grooving 

 between the stones. The place is still called, as then, Trip- 

 jet, or the '' Habitation of the Friends." Here in quick 

 succession most of the Brethren died, (no fewer than eleven 

 out of the thirteen,) upon which the mission was transferred 

 to the opposite island of Kamorta, first of all to the clearing 

 at Kalaha, and ultimately to Kamut. But all these sites 

 were as ill-selected as the first. An abode located between 

 swamp and forest, of which latter only a space of barely 

 1000 feet in circumference was cleared, could not but prove 

 fatal in a very short space of time to the unfortunate colonists. 

 At the village of Enuang too it would seem to be that the last 

 attempt at founding a settlement was made in 1835 by the 

 two French missionaries ; at least we were informed by 

 several natives, who seemed to be at present about 34 to 36 

 years of age, that they were themselves but boys when the 

 last missionaries lived at Nangkauri. They also further re- 

 collected that the gigantic cocoa-palms, which at present skirt 

 the forest, were at that time quite small saplings, and the 

 only vegetation between the beach and the mission house. 

 At present enormous roots are stretching over the foundations 

 of the earlier settlement. The natives who accompanied us 

 spoke with warm feeling of the missionaries, and seemed to 

 regret theii' departm-e. Many professed themselves with much 

 earnestness to be Christians, but they were so only in name. 

 According to what they reported, many natives must at that 



