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votedness and patient zeal. He had laboured unre¬ 
mittingly for ten anxious years ^ filling, with credit to 
himself and advantage to the Mission, the most im¬ 
portant station among his brethren, by whom he was 
highly and justly respected. He maintained an arduous 
post among the pioneers of the little army of Christian 
Missionaries 5 who, unarmed with bow and sword,'" 
had ventured to attack idolatry in its strongest holds 
among these distant islands 3 and, 
“ High on the pagan hills, where Satan sat 
Encamped, and o’er the subject kingdoms threw 
Perpetual night, to plant Immanuel’s cross, 
The ensign of the gospel, blazing round 
Immortal truth.’^ 
And, though he fell upon the field before he heard 
or uttered the shout of victory, his end was peaceful, 
and his hopes were firm. On a visit to Matavai, 
in ^ the early part of 1821, conducted by Mr. Nott, 
I made a pilgrimage to his grave. I stood beside 
the rustic hillock on which the tall grass waved in 
the breeze, and gazed upon the plain stone that marks 
the spot where his head reposes, with feelings of vene¬ 
ration for his character. I felt, also, in connexion 
with the change that has since taken place, that he had 
indeed desired to see the things that I beheld, but he 
had died without witnessing, on earth, the gladdening 
sight ; and that, in reference to his unremitted exertions, 
I and my junior companions had entered into his labours, 
and were reaping the harvest for which he had toilel. 
Shortly after Mr. Jefferson's death, Mr. Nott, accom¬ 
panied by Mr. Hayward, visited the islands of Huahine, 
Raiatea, and Borabora; travelled round each, preach- 
