A SPLENDID SUNRISE. 149 
afterwards occasionally visited by the women, 
they always behaved with the greatest propriety. 
When the sun declined, our new acquaint- 
ances left us to return to their homes, satisfied 
with their bargains, and delighted with the pre- 
sents they had received, and without having 
stolen any thing, although above a hundred of 
them had been on board at once. 
I had sent a message to the Missionary Wil- 
son, by an officer who now returned, bringing 
for answer an assurance that the Missionary 
would with pleasure do all in his power to 
assist us in procuring our supplies; a promise 
he faithfully kept. 
On the following morning we were greeted 
by the sun from a cloudless sky, with a most 
superb illumination of the country opposite to 
his rising. His rays glittering on the moun- 
tain-tops before they reached our horizon, gra- 
dually enlivened the variegated green that 
clothed their sides down to the vales, till the 
King of Day burst upon our sight in all his 
splendour, arraying the luxuriant landscape of 
the shore in still more enchanting beauty. 
Among the thickets of fruit-trees were seen the 
