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tionate wife^ whose face^ with that of every other friend^ 
was suffused with tears. His eye rolling its keen fitful 
glance on every object^ but resting on none^ spoke a state 
of feeling very remote indeed from tranquillity and ease. 
I could not help supposing that his agitated soul was^ 
through this her natural window^ looking wishfully on 
all she was then leaving | and as I saw his eye rest on his 
wife^ his father^ his friends around, and then glancing to 
the green boughs that waved gently in the passing breeze^ 
the bright and clear blue sky that appeared at intervals 
through the foliage, and the distant hills whose summits 
w^ere burnished with the splendour of the retiring sun— 
I almost imagined the intensity and rapidity of his 
glance indicated an impression that he would never gaze 
on them again. Such was the conviction of my own 
mind) and I reluctantly retired, more deeply than ever 
impressed with the necessity of early and habitual pre¬ 
paration for death. 
O ! how different would the scene have been, had this 
interesting youth, as earth with all its associations re¬ 
ceded from his view, experienced the support and conso¬ 
lations of the gospel, with the hopes of immortality. 
I presume not to say that in his last hours, in those emo¬ 
tions of the soul, when nature was too much exhausted 
to allow him to declare, and which were known only to 
God and to himself, he was not cheered by these anti¬ 
cipations. I would try to hope it was so : for indications 
of such feelings his dear sorrowing and surviving friends 
anxiously waited. 
How striking the contrast between his last day on earth, 
and that of Teivaiva, another youth of Huahine, and, like 
Taaroarii, an only son and an only child, who, when he 
saw his sorrowing parents weeping by the side of the 
