214 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
on the morrow to return for re-enforcements. Then they 
remembered that the predecessors of these men had been, 
one hundred years before, aye, twenty years before in some 
cases, almost as savage as the men their sons had come to 
teach. What had God wrought! The joy of remembrance 
restored their quiet trust; they renewed their confidence in 
Him who had already gotten Himself the victory elsewhere, 
and they claimed New Guinea also as they sang, ‘Jesus shall 
reign where’er the sun.’ , 
“There is no native of the South Seas to whom the term 
‘Apostle of New Guinea’ may be rightly applied. If that 
title belongs to any one, by common consent it would be 
given to the fearless martyr James Chalmers. But no one 
has been more ready to acclaim the heroism of his native 
helpers than was he. They, too, laid down their lives for 
Christ. In two years, at Fort Moresby alone, there were 
eighteen graves. At the Kemp Welch River and elsewhere 
the people suddenly rose and killed their teachers. Tauraki 
did his utmost to protect the people of the village where he 
taught, and lost his life by a spear thrust. ‘’Twas nobly 
done,’ said Chalmers, ‘and I am proud of it.’ 
“There was no lack of teachers, for when the missionary 
ship, ‘John Williams,’ returned from her annual visit to the 
stations, and it was told here, or there, that this or that one 
had fallen by disease, or had perished by the club of the 
cannibal, another man was ready to take the field at the post 
of danger. Twenty-three years after the mission had begun, 
three hundred teachers and their courageous wives had de- 
voted themselves to their self-imposed task. After that, so 
many were not needed, for, trained by Dr. Lawes, a few 
New Guinea men and women were then ready to teach their 
own people, and the number of such grew apace.” 
“Of that devoted band of South Sea native Christians 
who won the foothold in New Guinea, the names of num- 
bers are still known and cherished, but perhaps the name 
of Ruatoka towers above the rest. He was a Raratongan, 
