46 History of the * Dayspring.” 
1863, having on board the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Morison, the Rey. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCullagh, and the Rev. J. D. Gordon, mission- 
aries ; together with Captain and Mrs. Fraser and crew. We 
need scarcely add, that her departure from Nova Scotia 
awakened much good feeling, and that she was sent away with 
many a blessing and many a prayer. Early in January she was 
abreast of the Cape of Good Hope, and it was voted desirable 
to call at Capetown. The vessel remained two or three days 
there, and the Captain was afterwards always loud in praise of 
the kindness which the party experienced at the Cape. 
In March, 1864, the “Dayspring” put in her first appearance 
in Port Phillip waters, and took our young people all captive. 
It was but as yesterday since Mr. Paton moved them to collect 
for a ship to take the gospel to the heathen, and here now was 
the reality—beautiful and buoyant as a seagull, and having 
actual missionaries on board. After being exhibited to the 
good people of Melbourne and Geelong, she passed on to 
Sydney, where she shipped stores for a long cruise, and whence, 
along with our own missionaries, she took the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ella, of the London Missionary Society, to their sation on 
Uea, one of the Loyalty group. 
The arrival of the “ Dayspring” at Aneityum was like life 
from the dead to the fathers of the mission, and arrangements 
were at once made for entering on the proper work of the mis- 
sion ship. Her first trip was to the Loyalties, the impression 
being then that the “Dayspring” might serve the purposes of both 
missions. The authorities of the London Missionary Society, 
however, did not take kindly to this suggestion, and the pro- 
posal was soon given up. 
Captain Fraser got into some trouble at this time with the 
French commandant at Lifu. The French officials were then 
carrying things with a very high hand on New Caledonia and 
the neighbouring islands, against the natives and all Protestant 
missionaries : and the mission vessel was ordered away. It was 
