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word of God to grow." " I replied," he says, " ' If you 

 have no money, you have something to buy money 

 with.' This idea was quite new to them, and they 

 wished to know at once what they possessed which 

 would buy money. I said to them, ' The pigs I brought 

 to your island, on my first visit, have multiplied so 

 greatly, that all of you have an abundance ; and if 

 every family in the island were to set apart a pig " for 

 causing the word of God to grow," and when the ships 

 come, to sell them for money instead of cloth and axes, 

 a valuable contribution might be raised.' The idea de- 

 liglited them exceedingly, and early the next morning 

 the squeaking of the pigs, which were receiving a parti- 

 cular mark in the ear for this purpose, was heard from 

 one end of the settlement to the other. In the interim, 

 a ship had been there, the captain of which had pur- 

 chased their pigs, and paid for them most honourably ; 

 and now, to my utter astonishment, the native treasurer 

 put into my hands 103?., partly in bills, and partly in 

 cash. This was the first money they ever possessed, 

 and every farthing of it was dedicated to the cause of 

 Christ." 



