PREFACE. 
residence of seven years in that part of the 
world. His materials, collected during that pe- 
riod, and carefully from time to time committed 
to writing, were collected together by him while 
he was on the passage, a space of five months, 
from New Zealand, in his visit to this country ; 
and being now given to the Public in a more 
systematic form, will be found, the Committee are 
persuaded, well calculated, both to convey much 
new information, and to fix in the mind of every 
Christian reader a deeper interest in the sacred 
cause of Missions. 
Church Missionary House, 
August \(^th, 1835. 
