128 Letter VII, 
the habit of getting daily deliveries of letters and papers can 
have no idea of the excitement that the arrival of letters 
causes, after the lapse of three or four months without news of 
any kind. The most miserable newspaper has an interest 
hardly credible, and is read eagerly from beginning to end, 
advertisements and all; and if this be the case with the papers, 
I need hardly say how letters are received and welcomed. It 
is only by being deprived of certain things for a time that one 
can properly appreciate them; and on going to places 
where mails are not delivered oftener than once in four months, 
one will have a very much greater idea of the benefits which 
the postal arrangements confer than one ever had before. 
After the Synodical meetings were concluded, the “ Day- 
spring” started on a second trip round the group, the work 
portioned out for her being the return of the missionaries 
to their islands, the settlement of Messrs. Robertson and 
McDonald, visits to Ambrim, Santo, and Maré in the Loyalty 
group, and finally, visits to each mission station, for mails 
before taking her departure to Melbourne. 
As this voyage was a good deal the same as the last, I will, 
merely notice the exceptional events that occurred in it, 
which were the settlement of the new missionaries and the visits 
to Ambrim and Maré. 
On Tuesday, the 25th June, we reached Dillon’s Bay, and 
lay there four days, during which time the old mission house 
was made as comfortable as circumstances would permit, and 
the Robertsons, with their stores and furniture, landed. 
We had an uncomfortable time of it, on board, while lying here; 
for soon after we anchored, the wind veered round to the west, and 
a nasty sea camerolling into the bay, so that we lay bobbing up and 
down on the waves, with the stern of the vessel a hundred yards or so 
from the shore, upon which the waves burst with an angry hiss. We 
