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the project. " Words cannot express," exclaims 

 Haensel, as he tells the tale, " the painful sensa- 

 tions that filled my mind when I was taking my 

 last farewell of the inhabitants, who flocked to me 

 from all the adjacent islands. Their grief was very 

 affecting, as they wept and howled, begging that 

 the Brethren might soon return to them ; for we 

 had always enjoyed their esteem and love, and had 

 always found them ready to serve us. When I 

 remembered the numberless prayers, sighs, and 

 tears offered up for the conversion of the poor hea- 

 then here, and beheld our burial-ground, where 

 eleven of my companions had their resting-place, 

 I burst into tears arid exclaimed, " Surely all this 

 cannot have been done in vain 1" 



