102 A MISSION TO VITI. 
agreeable companions in the chief and his people. In 
return for the dignities heaped upon him, Harry was to 
repair the muskets of the tribe, and to tell the chief 
stories about the white men and their country. Having 
for about a week been an errand-boy to a London 
apothecary, he was able to dispense pills to the sick, 
and thus to assume another important stand in his new 
life. Years had rolled on without his seeing any 
white faces, when one day native messengers arrived 
from the coast, stating that they had been sent by a 
foreigner, who wished to have an interview with him, 
and whom they described as wearing a blue coat all 
covered with looking-glasses. Harry had seen many 
extraordinary sights, but a man thus attired excited his 
curiosity, and he acceded to the request. To his sur- 
prise, he found the late Mr. Williams, United States 
Consul, whose brass buttons had been mistaken for 
looking-glasses. Mr. Williams had heard of the exist- 
ence of some copper mines in the interior, and was de- 
sirous of purchasing them. Through Harry’s interven- 
tion, that object was accomplished, and the mines passed 
into Mr. Williams’s possession, but they have not as yet 
been worked, nor indeed been examined by any scien- 
tific man. Dr. Macdonald and Mr. 8. Waterhouse paid a 
visit to Namosi when they ascended the Rewa river; and 
Harry, who had long ere that sown all his wild oats, 
and found one wife quite as much as a sensible man 
could manage, begged the Rev. Samuel Waterhouse to 
christen his natural children. But he met with a re- 
fusal, on the ground of his not being married. “Then 
pray marry me,” was the next demand. “Impossible,” 
