222 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
“After we had got through most of the bartering, we 
managed to get them to keep quiet for a while, and I got 
Tolituru to interpret as I explained what our object and 
intentions were. I then put what I am sure was the first 
fathom of print he ever wore, round the chief, who was 
the only one allowed to come on board; and after inviting 
him to come over to Port Hunter to see me, we turned 
ahead and said good-by. 
“Some of the canoes followed us for some distance, as 
the men very much wished us to land. As we steamed © 
along the coast, the natives came in crowds and made mo- 
tions for us to go on shore... . 1 would gladly have stopped 
to hold a little communication with the people, but the slight- 
est hint of such an intention produced such expressions of 
dissent that I thought it best to abandon it; and mentally 
vowing to have a better crew next time, I steered for Nanup 
and Palakauru, two small islands, on one of which we pro- 
posed to spend the night.” 
A few days after this, Mr. Brown was greatly surprised 
to hear the cry “Sail ho! sail ho!” ring out from the natives, 
and on going to the crest of a near-by hill, descried there a 
brigantine beating up to the port entrance. He was soon 
to learn from Captain Hernsheim that good impressions had 
been made upon natives of neighboring islands by the re- 
ports that had reached them of the missionary’s methods 
of labor among the tribes that he had thus far visited. 
About six days later, he, with Captain Hernsheim of the 
brigantine “Cocran,’ Mr. Blohm, a passenger on the same 
vessel, Jack Holmes, two Port Hunter natives, and two 
Fijian teachers, sailed in the mission launch to visit the 
natives on the shores of Blanche Bay, among whom Mr. 
Brown had been prevented from landing on his previous 
voyage by the fears and opposition of his crew. As they 
neared the island of Matupit, the tales of dreadful savagery 
which had so often been told him of the Matupit natives 
were recalled by the missionary, but assurance of safety 
