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front door down to the water, alongside wliich 
vessels of five-and-twenty tons may lie with safety, 
and discharge their cargoes. A two-story wea- 
ther-board house, with a verandah front, consti- 
tutes the left wing ; and a weather-board house 
and store, the right. On the little eminence in the 
back-ground of the settlement stands a lath-and- 
plaster chapel, thirty-eight feet by twenty, which 
has a very neat appearance from the water : on 
the same hill, and in a line with the chapel, is 
another house, occupied by Mr. Baker : this build- 
ing is wattled, has a verandah in front, and, were 
it not for the unsightliness of its roof, would add 
much to the beauty of the place. The whole 
ground consists of gardens, well secured by fences, 
and stocked with many choice and flourishing fruit- 
trees. The difficulty of forming a school here 
was, in the first instance, very great : a few boys 
were collected together ; but they were absent so 
frequently, from their thinking that they must all 
be rewarded for their attendance, that the school 
soon dwindled to nothing. Nor were the services 
on the Sabbath, for along period, better attended : 
the natives living in the settlement, when the 
first sound of the Sabbath-bell caught their ears, 
would simultaneously run away, and employ 
themselves in fishing, or rowing their canoes, or 
in some other of their native sports. Sometimes 
they would come into the chapel, dressed in the 
most fantastic style ; and at others, in a state next 
to nudity. Not unfrequently, in the middle of the 
