84 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
““Q) fathers and brethren, think not that I am guilty of 
presumption, charge me not with exaggeration, deem me not 
a fanatic, when I tell you that your missionaries in Fiji can 
do nothing for the larger portion of Fiji’s benighted race, 
which is still cannibal, still heathen, still without one ray of 
gospel light; and when I ask you to appeal to the British 
churches of Methodism, for the sake of the blood of the 
Son of God, which cries and pleads before the eternal throne 
for Fiji’s perishing sons, to pity poor Fiji, and to send help 
at once to poor perishing Fiji. 
“ “But I must check my pen. I purposed to tell you of a 
visit to Navua; and of a perilous and interesting journey 
into the very heart of the large island of Fiji (three hun- 
dred miles in circumference), where a white man’s voice 
had never been heard, a white man’s foot had never trod; 
where the name, the ever-blessed name, of Jehovah had never 
been uttered; where the sweet saving sound of Jesu’s name 
was unknown; where all that was known of the Jotu was, 
that a white man’s religion had come onto some parts of 
the coast; where I passed two hundred heathen towns on the 
banks of one river; where light, and mercy, and salvation 
will never dawn upon the present generation, if Britain’s 
churches do not listen to their cry, whilst, in the utterances 
of misery and blood, they say, “Come and help us, ere we 
die.”’ 9 39? 
Mr. Moore, writing from his station at the same time, 
penned the following earnest appeal. It is here reproduced 
to present to the reader the situation of those heroic pioneers 
of the gospel in Fiji as it existed just then. Huis wife was 
at that time away in Australia seeking health, and he was 
alone at his place. His position and feelings were repre- 
sentative of the other half dozen missionaries that were then 
nobly facing the cannibal world of Fiji. He says: 
“T am almost worn out; never resting, seldom two days 
together at home, . . . talking, preaching, till I feel as if I 
could not speak again. I go, and go, and go, till I can move 
