152 THE CHIEF MISSIONARY. 
ary, built after the European fashion, stands 
in the midst of a kitchen-garden richly provided 
with all kinds of European vegetables. 
Mr. Wilson gave me a cordial welcome to his 
neat and simple dwelling, and presented to me 
his wife, an Englishwoman, and two children, 
besides two Englishmen, whom he named as 
Messrs. Bennet and Tyrman. They belonged 
to the London Missionary Society, and had left 
England three years before to visit the Mission- 
ary Settlements in the South Sea. 
The chief Missionary, to whom the others 
are subordinate, is named Nott, and lives in the 
capital where the King resides. He is now far 
advanced in life. He has made himself master 
of the Tahaitian language, and was the first who 
ever wrote it. He has translated the Bible, 
a Prayer Book, and some Hymns; and has 
printed a Grammar of the language, under the 
title of, ‘* A Grammar of the Tahaitian Dialect 
of the Polynesian Language. Tahaiti: printed 
at the Mission Press, Burder’s Point, 1823.” 
He also first instructed the Tahaitians in read- 
ing and writing, which acquirements are now tole- 
rably common among them. I am sorry not to 
