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with fowls^ fruity vegetables^ &c. for sale^ manifesting 
considerable earnestness and address in the disposal of 
their goods. The same was continued through the second 
day I but on the thirds to the great astonishment of all on 
boards no individual came near the ship^ assignings after¬ 
wards^ as a reason^ that it was the Sabbath. On the day 
followings however^ the trade was as brisk as it had been 
on that of their arrival. Captain Gambler^ who visited 
them in the same year^ in the extracts from his journal, 
which have been published, states, in reference to the 
manner of attending the duties of the Sabbath among 
the young, that, The silence^—the order preserved—the 
devotion and attention paid to the subject, surprised and 
pleased me beyond measure/' Children," he adds, 
are seen bringing their aged parents to the church, 
that they may partake of the pleasure they derive ,from 
the explanation of the Bible," The general attention to 
the public worship of God, and the exemplary Christian 
deportment of many of the people, have proved not only 
delightful, but beneficial to their visitors ; and we have 
the high and grateful satisfaction of knowing, that 
occasional and transient visits to the Christian islands 
of the Pacific, have been the means of advantage to 
the visitors; and there are probably many instances of 
good, which the revelations of the last day alone will 
disclose. 
It is a privilege to visit a country, and a happiness to 
live in a community, where the Sabbaths are thus spent, 
and prove to multitudes— 
“ Foretastes of heaven on earth—pledges of joy 
Surpassing fancy^s flights and fiction’s story, 
The preludes of a feast that cannot cloy. 
And the bright out-courts of immortal glory!” 
