82 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
to the heathen. At last a strong, large chapel was built, and 
the work seemed to be flourishing. 
In the course of time other missionaries arrived and la- 
bored, and at last Mr. Samuel Waterhouse came from New 
Zealand to assist in the work. This good man was richly 
blessed in his labors at Nandi, but again in 1856 the station 
was visited by death. The young wife of Mr. Waterhouse, 
who came to Fiji in delicate health, died, aged only twenty- 
six years, leaving her husband broken-hearted. “No man 
ever loved Fiji with a more Christian devotion,” but he felt 
that he could not remain with his infant son, and so sailed 
for Tasmania, where he could leave his child in the care of 
friends. Speaking of the desolation of his life after this 
experience, he has said: 
“T went about with an afflicted body and a sorrow-stricken 
soul, striving to do such good as I could... . I had a small 
decked boat, named “The Ambassador of Peace,’ at my dis- 
posal and control; and with two natives as crew and myself 
as captain, I went about from island to island, and place to 
place, as inclination and a prospect of usefulness prompted. 
Very often, in my voyages, a stormy sea and hidden reefs 
imperiled me; but my heavenly Father rode upon the storm, 
and the great Pilot never forsook the helm of my little 
bark” 
On one occasion, when Mr. Waterhouse had gone back 
to Nandi to arrange with the missionary then at that sta- 
tion to send a teacher to the tribes of the Boiling Springs, 
“and to weep over the grave of the absent one,” he was able 
to send a young man named Watson, a man of promise in 
the work. With joy of heart he blessed the young man as he 
started him on his perilous undertaking, but not long after- 
ward he received a letter from his brother, telling that “poor 
Watson had fallen a martyr to peace. He visited two con- 
tending tribes, and interposed as mediator. ... He had stood 
firm and faithful in many an hour of trial. ... He was not 
of distinguished talent; but Fiji could ill spare him; for her 
