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aries were later made into fishhooks. Thus ended the first 
effort to win Fotuna to Christ. 
Some two years later, as the ship “John Williams’ was 
passing the island, she called, and inquiries were made for 
these teachers. The savages told Mr. Murray and Dr. 
Turner that the teachers were well. They explained their 
absence by claiming that they were working on their plan- 
tations, but the threatening attitude of the armed savages 
aroused the fears of the missionaries, who sailed away, only 
to hear at Aneityum that the teachers on Fotuna had been 
killed and eaten two years before. 
About eight years later two of the natives of a neighboring 
island were selected to proceed to Fotuna as missionaries. 
These two were Waihit and Yosefa, who had been converted 
on the island of Aneityum. “Waihit had been a sacred 
man of the sea, fierce and cruel,’ who had been completely 
changed by the gospel. He proved to be a great help in the 
work of missions. “Yosefa was a tried, faithful, and prom- 
ising young man.” These two were the first native evangel- 
ists to be selected as missionaries from among the savage, 
cannibal tribes of the western Pacific. 
In the same year they were landed on Fotuna, only to be 
treated most cruelly by the Fotunese, who refused to allow 
them to have food. Waihit, in his distress, used the roots 
which they dug up. At last Yosefa decided that he would re- 
turn to Aneityum for food. He engaged a boatman to con- 
vey him there. Almost at the outset a strong wind blew 
and a heavy sea ran, preventing them from reaching Anei- 
tyum. The boatman, becoming discouraged, allowed the boat 
to drift. For five days they drifted, not knowing whither 
the wind and the tides were taking them. During that time 
the only food they had was a few uncooked yams. At last 
they reached New Caledonia, two hundred miles distant. 
Then they went on to the island of Pines, where they were 
kindly treated. Finally an opportunity came for them to 
return to Fotuna, which place they reached five months later. 
