IN THE LOYALTY ISLANDS 169 
“There were two parties in the district of Medu,—tribes 
we may call them,—the one being denominated the children 
or descendants of one chief, the other of another. One of 
the tribes took no part in the attack upon Hnaisiline and his 
party; so the guilt of that murderous affair rested solely on 
the other, and on them fell the retribution. As stated above, 
in less than a year they were driven from their homes with 
great slaughter. The survivors became papists, and fled to 
the Isle of Pines, where they continued in exile till about 
three or four years ago, when they were reinstated in their 
own land by the French government. 
“ “Not one single individual,’ remarks Mr. Jones, ‘is now 
living who assisted in the killing of those two men, and while 
children of Seivine, of whom they were, have been wandering 
homeless all these years, the children of Waetheane (the 
head of the other tribe) have been living contentedly on their 
own lands, have embraced Christianity, have a considerable 
number of church members, a deacon, and a teacher—indeed, 
are quite a flourishing mission station.’ 
“Thus remarkably has God in His providence dealt with 
these respective tribes, blessing and prospering the one, while 
the immediate actors in the murder of the Christians have 
been cut off, and the whole tribe, Cainlike, have been fugi- 
tives and vagabonds for the space of twenty years.” 
