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between Tahaa and Raiatea, and arrived at the new 
Missionary settlement^ on the north-west side of the 
latter^ about noon. Here we received a cordial wel¬ 
come from our friends Messrs. Orsmond, Williams, 
and Threlkeld; who w^ere comfortable in their new 
sphere of action, and greatly attached to the people; 
by whom they were highly respected, and among 
whom they had reason to believe they were use- 
fully employed. 
Mr. Orsmond appeared to sustain his bereavement 
with Christian fortitude. We visited the grave of the 
first labourer that had been called from our little band, 
and (with mingled feelings of regret at her early de¬ 
parture from the field we had unitedly cultivated, 
and sympathy with him whom she had left behind,) 
beheld the humble mound under which her mortal 
remains were I’eposing, and around which a number 
of indigenous and exotic flowers had been planted. 
Mr. Williams and Mr. Orsmond had for some 
time past preached in the native language. They 
were not only anxious to instruct the people in 
religion, but to improve their present condition by 
encouraging them to build comfortable houses after 
our example, and to bring under cultivation a larger 
portion of the soil than they had hitherto been ac¬ 
customed to enclose. While we remained, we visited 
the different parts of the district, and called upon 
the king,—whom we were delighted to find in a 
neat plastered house,—and, after spending two or 
three days with them at Vaoaara, we returned to 
Huahine. 
No circumstances connected with the interesting sta¬ 
tion at Raiatea afforded us more satisfaction, than the 
