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feared for their lives ; but it pleased our hea- 
venly Father to spare them. The commander 
of the ship was most kind and attentive, and the 
ship was most comfortably fitted up ; in short, 
we were well cared for on board the Morayshire. 
" Wc are just now getting the houses, stores, 
cattle, &c. &c, transferred to us ; which seems 
to be a work of time and routine. Some of our 
people are getting lessons in ploughing, sheep- 
shearing, milking, and corn-grinding; so that 
we are all very busy. The weather is so unfa- 
vourable that we have not yet got all our effects 
on shore, although every exertion has been made 
under the superintendence of acting Lieutenant 
Gregorie, of H. M.S. Juno. 
" Last Sabbath was a day which will long be 
remembered by us ; it was our first meeting in 
the church for public worship. After the morn- 
ing service I administered the Holy Communion, 
and in the evening committed to the earth a 
premature car from our gradually ripening sheaf. 
THink of us in the church which had formerly 
been filled with the vilest outcasts of society $ 
and then imagine us in the graveyard, filled 
with the mounds which contained hundreds oi 
their bodies ; and I am sure that you will enter 
largely into, and partake of, the intense grati- 
tude, joy, grief, and (I had almost said) terror, 
which pervaded our minds. 
" I should like to say more ; but I am so fully 
employed all the day, and I cannot see to write 
by night; so that, assuring you I will write 
more fully whenever I can do so, I shall end by 
wishing all whom you love, that best of all 
