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came to anchor in Dillon’s Bay, just opposite to a deep valley, 
down which a stream find its way to the sea. Although the 
scenery on the coasts on each side is not beautiful, the appear- 
ance of this valley is certainly very pretty. The hills on each 
side are high and steep, and in some parts well wooded. Upon 
the right, near the top of the hill, is the spot where Mr. and 
Mrs. G. N. Gordon lived, and were killed ; down on the beach, 
to the right of the river, just where it joins the sea, John Williams 
was killed. The house that was occupied by the last missionary, 
Mr. McNair, who died there in 1870, is a few hundred yards up 
the stream, on the left-hand side, but not visible from the anchor- 
age. A few white houses stand down on the beach, facing out 
to sea, and these are occupied as a whaling station. A litho. 
of my sketch of this scene is given in one of the letters which 
follow ; the sketch was taken when the sun was shining down 
the valley, lighting up one side with its rays and throwing the 
other into deep shadow, which again was transferred as a dark 
reflection to the surface of the still water. 
On going ashore we found seventy or eighty natives gathered 
together in a native building, and one of their number ad- 
dressing them. This was the entire Christian party of the 
island, assembled for public worship—those who had been 
taught by Mr. G. Gordon and Mr. McNair at Dillon’s Bay, 
and those who had been taught by Mr. J. D. Gordon at 
Portinia Bay. They had all come to this side of the island for 
safety, as the heathen, when they murdered Mr. Gordon a few 
months ago, had threatened to kill them also. 
Several of the heathen natives of the Dillon’s Bay district 
were lounging about the river side as we went up, and more 
degraded specimens of humanity I could not imagine to exist. 
They were so frightfully repulsive that the Tanese and the 
Fotunese, by comparison, went up fifty per cent. in my estima- 
tion. But here again I noticed that wonderful difference 
