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LETTER XIV. 
THE NEW HEBRIDES MISSIONS —- ATTACKS ON MISSIONS 
GENERALLY—MISSION WORK ON THE GROUP—-BENEFITS 
TO SCIENCE AND COMMERCE RENDERED BY MISSIONARIES 
—THE NATIVE TEACHERS. 
Port Resolution, Tana, 
December, 1872. 
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x this letter I am going to give you a few of my ideas as to 
the missions in the New Hebrides. What follows is not to be 
a report of the work done at each station, or a history of what 
has been done; but merely a few observations, in my usual 
rambling way, as to the position which these missionaries 
hold, the work they do as a body, and the way in which 
they do it. 
I know that some persons will be apt to look at my state- 
ments as prejudiced in favour of the missionaries, from the 
circumstances in which I am placed; but I do not admit that 
there is any ground for such a supposition, and I am sure that 
what I assert would be confirmed by anyone who has observed 
for himself and candidly judged of what is seen. 
How is it that the anti-missionary party in this world of ours 
is so strong and so bitter? How is it so difficult to make 
