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nexion that had subsisted between him and themselves^ 
as members of the church of Christy and discontinued 
all Christian and social intercourse with him. He 
was still constant in attendance on public worship^ 
industrious in the culture of his garden^ and in working 
for the king and principal chiefs^ w^ho were evidently 
much attached to him. On the 23d of November^ the 
Missionaries heard he had died on the preceding evening. 
They hastened to his house^ and found the corpse lying 
on a bed; the forehead and face considerably disfigured 
with wounds^ apparently inflicted with a stone and a 
sharp instrument. The female with whom he had lived 
as his wife^ informed them that he went out of the 
house on the preceding evenings and that hearing a 
noise shortly afterwards, she hastened to the spot 
whence it proceeded, and saw him on the pavement in 
front of the house, beating his head against the stones. 
On looking at that part of the pavement where he had 
fallen, one or two of the stones were stained with 
blood. Some of the natives said that he had acted as 
if insane, others that the evil spirit had entered into 
him; but, from several expressions that were used, there 
was reason to apprehend he had been murdered. 
Assisted by two or three natives, Mr. Bicknell and 
Mr. Nott dug his grave in a spot near their dwelling on 
the north side of Matavai bay, which had been selected 
as a place of interment. On the evening of the 
29th of November, 1799, Mr. Nott, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. 
Eyre, and Mr, Bicknell, bore his remains to the grave, 
where Mr. Harris read the xcth Psalm, and offered up an 
appropriate prayer to Almighty God. The circumstances 
of his death were truly affecting, and the feelings of the 
Missionaries such as it would be in vain to attempt to 
