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this was soon done, and those who could not gain admis¬ 
sion, were enabled to hear. 
Temporary verandas or coverings of cocoa-nut leaves 
had been attached to the side of the house next the 
sea, widening it five or six feet, and on the other side 
it was also thrown open. A sermon was preached in 
the forenoon, and in the afternoon the people were ad¬ 
dressed by Mahine, Taua, and other leading chiefs, on 
the advantages they had derived from the gospel, the 
destitute state of those who had not received it, and the 
obligation they were under to send it; proposing, at the 
same time, that each person, so disposed, should annually 
prepare a small quantity of cocoa-nut oil, which should 
be collected, sent to England, and sold, to aid the 
Society, which had sent teachers to Tahiti, in sending 
them to other nations. 
Those who had been at Eimeo, and many of the 
inhabitants of Huahine, appeared interested in the 
details that were given of the condition of other parts 
of the world, and the efforts that had been made 
by Christians in England to send them the means of 
instruction. The presence of the chiefs of the different 
islands, with numbers of their people, the former 
devotees of their respective national idols, and the 
adherents of the different political parties, who had often 
within the last twenty years met each other in battle 
on the shores of Huahine or Raiatea, together with the 
novelty of the object, and the excitement of feeling 
which such a concourse of people necessarily produced, 
rendered the meeting exceedingly interesting, though 
to us it was less so than one subsequently held in 
Fare, and that which we had attended in Eimeo. 
The Haweis having conveyed the Missionaries to 
