294 THE GBUISE OF TEE 'GURAQOA.* 



CHAPTER XXI. 



EBAMANGA—NEW HEBBIDES. 



(September 26 to 26.) 



View of a fortified Village and a Tree-house— Man overboard — Tedious 

 Navigation— A Gale— Calms— At anchor in Dillon's Bay— News from. 

 Land— Trade in Sandal Wood — Mr. Henry — Lime from Coral — A Bomb- 

 shell in the Hands of Savages — The Rev. Mr. Gordon— Hostile State ot 

 Things — Two ill-di.=!posed Chiefs— The Master of the 'Curajoa' attacked by 

 Natives — The Village of Sifu bombarded by the 'Cura^oa' — A Missionary 

 whenever laughed— Notes on the Island^ Epidemics — Missionary Labours 

 ^Government — Manners and Customs — Religious Creeds^Trade in Wood 

 and Women — Productions — Industry. 



On September 10, early in the morning, we left Ysabel 

 Island, having the ' Southern Cross ' in tow, which we 

 subsequently bore away from after mutual adieus, and bent 

 o'lr course towards Erainanga distant 900 miles. The day 

 being clear it was possible, with the aid of a glass, to see the 

 village which the Bishop had visited. It seemed a very 

 compact, closely-built place. The Commodore could dis- 

 tinguish with his glass that the village was regularly fortified 

 all round. To me all the houses looked, from the effect of 

 the hght upon them, as if they were built of stone ; some of 

 them appeared of good size. A little way from the village, 

 a,nd perhaps not more than a mile and a half off, was a tall 



