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in which the natives of Eramanga were first introduced to 
civilization and its powers. 
The next white visitors to the island were the sandalwood 
traders, who, finding Eramanga to be rich in that precious 
wood, opened trading stations upon it. 
I need say nothing about the general character of this trade, 
and of those concerned in it ; for enough has been already said 
about the matter to show it in its true light. Next to a slave 
trade, perhaps no traffic on earth has been so polluted with 
human blood, or connected with such fearful atrocities, as this 
traffic in the sandalwood. 
The crimes and evil actions of the demoralized vagabonds 
engaged in collecting the sandalwood, cannot be too strongly 
condemned or too greatly abhorred; for they not only ruth- 
lessly sacrificed the lives of many of the natives, but indirectly 
they have destroyed many noble and pure-hearted men who 
have fallen by the avenging hands of the incensed savages. 
The number of white men who have been murdered upon 
Eramanga affords, I think, a very good proof that the trade there 
has not been conducted on a more just footing than in other 
places ; for I firmly believe that if the natives had been fairly 
and kindly treated from the beginning, we should have had 
little or nothing to complain of them now. 
The first victims on Eramanga were John Williams and 
this companion Harris, who were murdered soon after their 
landing at Dillon’s Bay on a visit, in the year 1852. Next 
Mr. and Mrs. G. Gordon, a missionary and his wife who had 
been residing: at Dillon’s Bay for four years, were murdered in 
the year 1861. Lastly, Mr. J. D. Gordon—a brother of Mr. 
G. N. Gordon—a missionary residing at Portinia Bay, was mur- 
dered there in February last. It is a fearful story; but one 
