At Nandi 
THE mission at Nandi, a town on the coast of the large 
island of Vanua Levu in the Fiji group, was begun under 
the usual difficulties that were met in other places in Fiji. 
The same horrible cruelties and conditions of cannibal deg- 
radation obtained at Nandi as elsewhere. Of the two fam- 
ilies that were sent to labor in that part of the group, one, 
Mr. and Mrs. Ford, were newly arrived from England. For 
a whole year save ten days these workers were on the way 
to their mission field. It was soon evident that Mr. Ford 
was having a severe struggle to keep his health, and it became 
apparent that he could not endure the climate. Almost con- 
stantly he was a sufferer from severe headache. 
Only two months after their arrival, Nandi was visited 
by a violent windstorm which blew down many of the houses 
in the town. Three days later the hurricane returned and 
blew with terrific fury. Their companions at the mission 
were Mr. and Mrs. Watsford. Mr. Williams, in writing of 
the trials of these families, has said: 
“Who, but the God whom they served and trusted, can 
tell all that these two families suffered during the occurrences 
so simply narrated in the following extract from Mr. Wats- 
ford’s journal? 
“<Sunpay, January 16, 1848.—A day long to be remem- 
bered. Never, while memory holds her seat, shall I forget 
what we have this day passed through. All Saturday night 
the wind was very high, and it increased toward morning. 
About ten o’clock it blew a tremendous gale. We had some 
of the teachers and people in our house, and they did all they 
could to keep it up; but it rocked and shook over our heads, 
and we expected it to fall every moment. 
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