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not^ without some sacrifice of feeling, meet any of their 
own countrymen by whom the island might be visited; 
and, often rising in the morning from the rustic bed, 
without knowing whence the supplies of even native 
food for the day were to be derived, they have sent out a 
native servant-boy to seek for bread-fruit in the moun¬ 
tains, or to solicit a supply from the trees of some 
friendly chief in the neighbourhood, while they have 
repaired to the school, and pursued their daily exercises 
of instruction, cheered and encouraged only by the pro¬ 
gress of their scholars. 
Such are the men who have long laboured in these 
islands ; and though others may have been associated 
with them, who have turned back, or proved themselves 
unequal to the station, where many, who stand firm 
at their post at home, would perhaps have fainted, or 
have fallen under the discouragements inseparable from 
it—they have been faithful. They seek not the praise 
that cometh from man, but the testimony of their con¬ 
sciences and the approval of Heaven; and irrespective 
of the honour God has put upon them, they are entitled, 
from their steady and successful course, to be highly 
esteemed for their works’ sake.” 
