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BOWDITCH ISLAND. 
tree, was the trade-box, and near to it stood the trade-in aster, measur¬ 
ing the fathoms of cloth. On one side were natives, seated with their 
cocoa-nuts and pigs, and others looking on; some again sitting aloof, 
because they could not obtain their price, or the article they wanted; 
and others watching their opportunity to obtain a small reward for 
some service. The vignette is from a sketch by Mr. Agate, of one of 
these parties at Apia. 
TRADING SCENE. APIA 
In the account of my visit to this island the year previous, I have 
mentioned the intention of Mr. Williams to extend the missionary field 
to the groups west of the Feejees, and had occasion to refer to his 
melancholy end in carrying out this intention, and the recovery of his 
bones by H. B. M. sloop of war Favourite. 
That occurrence, instead of damping the ardour of the survivors, 
has been the means of giving it a fresh impetus. Mr. Heath, who has 
become the successor to Mr. Williams, has made a cruise with a 
number of native missionaries, and succeeded in placing them in the 
very island which was the scene of the massacre, with every prospect 
of success. 
The Camden was fitting out for another cruise, under the Rev. Mr. 
Murray, of Tutuila. Captain Hudson pressed upon them the expe¬ 
diency of a visit to the island that he had just discovered, Fakaafo or 
Bowditch; and it is to be hoped that ere long their enterprise may 
