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our arrival. Two Christian chiefs^ Tati and Ahuriro, 
were walking together by the water-side, when they 
came to a place where a fisherman had been employed in 
making or sharpening hooks, and had left a large file, 
(a valuable article in Tahiti,) lying on the ground. The 
chiefs picked it up; and, as they were proceeding, one 
said to the other : This is not ours. Is not our taking 
it a species of theft ?’’ Perhaps it is,’" replied the other. 
^^Yet, as the true owner is not here, I do not know 
who has a greater right to it than ourselves.” It is not 
ours,” said the former, and we had better give it away.” 
After further conversation, they agreed to give it to the 
first person they met, which they did ; telling him they 
had found it, and requested that if he heard who had 
lost such a one, he would restore it. 
During the year 1820, the Mission in the Windward 
Islands sustained a heavy bereavement in the decease 
of Messrs. Bicknell and Tessier. The latter, who was a 
man of modest and unobtrusive habits, but patient and 
unremitting industry, in the important work of educat¬ 
ing the rising generation, died on the 23d of July. His 
Christian course had not been splendid or attractive, but 
it had been undeviating and unsullied. His end was not 
only peaceful, but triumphant in faith, and glowing in 
anticipation of the holy and spiritual joys awaiting him 
in the abodes of blessedness. 
Mr. Bicknell, whose health was not firm, followed the 
remains of his faithful coadjutor to the tomb; and while 
standing on the edge of the closing grave, and addressing 
the sorrowing multitude around, felt indisposed from the 
exposure. This was followed by fever, which terminated 
his life fourteen days after the death of Mr. Tessier. 
Though his illness was short, his mind, towards the 
