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operations among them had given rise. In spite of the severe loss I 

 had sustained in the death of one dear to me, I could not but consider 

 that we were fortunate in having performed our duties without suffer- 

 ing a greater number of serious accidents. The contrast of the 

 character of the islands themselves, with that of the race of beings by 

 which they are inhabited, is marked most strongly. The latter are 

 truly wretches in the strongest sense of the term, and degraded beyond 

 the conception of civilized people. For the sake of decency, and to 

 avoid shocking the moral sense of my readers, I have refrained from 

 relating many things which happened under my own eyes. What 

 I have stated, will, however, serve to give an idea of the habits, 

 manners, and customs of the natives of Feejee, in every point that 

 can be spoken of without exciting a blush. 



No one can visit these islands without feeling a poignant regret 

 that so lovely a part of God's creation should be daily and hourly 

 sullied by deeds of such unparalleled depravity as those to which I 

 have alluded. 



The time will, I trust, ere long arrive, when the missionaries, by 

 their perseverance, courage, and devotedness, shall reclaim these 

 islanders from their sensual and savage customs, and bring them 

 within the fold of civilization. For the success of their meritorious 

 labours, they have my most hearty prayers; and it has afforded me 

 no small pleasure to learn that we were considered by them as 

 having in some small degree aided in making the way for the intro- 

 duction of the gospel more easy and smooth to them, than it had been 

 before our visit to this group. 





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