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had also assisted a young man in an intrigue 
with a woman whose husband was not so com- 
plaisant, by lending his house as a place of 
rendezvous. Suddenly the owner and his wife 
disappeared in the night, the house was found 
empty next morning, and we could never learn 
what had become of its proprietors. Have the 
Missionaries already introduced the Oubliettes ? 
Having occasion one morning to visit Wilson 
on business, I found his door, which usually 
stood open, closed and fastened: I knocked 
several times; but the whole house seemed 
buried in the repose of death: at length, after 
loud and repeated strokes, the door was opened 
by Wilson, whose cheeks bedewed with tears 
made me apprehensive that some great calamity 
had befallen him; I was however soon satisfied 
that devotion alone had caused this emotion. 
In an ante-room I found four or five naked Ta- 
haitians, of the highest rank, as Wilson told me, 
on their knees reading the Bible. Having apo- 
logized for what appeared to be an unseason- 
able intrusion, I was about to retire, but was 
invited by Wilson, in a friendly manner, into 
the inner apartment, where I found his whole 
