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were completed; a substantial place of worship^ schools, 
and a house for the Missionaries, had been finished, and the 
neat plastered dwellings of the natives extended for two 
miles along the beach. The scenery of this district of 
the island is much less picturesque than in many other 
parts; yet it is impossible to behold the neat and exten¬ 
sive settlement, with its gardens, quays, schools, capa¬ 
cious chapel, and cottages, stretching along the shore, 
which but a few years before was covered with brush¬ 
wood and trees, without astonishment and delight. The 
accompanying plate, from a drawing taken on the spot, 
although it exhibits the general outline of the station, 
will convey but a faint representation of the interesting 
features of the Missionary’s settlement, or the surround¬ 
ing country. 
On the twentieth of January, shortly after our return 
from Borabora, his Majesty’s ship Dauntless, coin- 
manded by Capt. G. C. Gambler, touched at Huahine. 
We were happy to introduce the commander of the 
Dauntless, Capt. R. Elliot, and the officers of the vessel, 
to the governor and chiefs of the island, and to welcome 
them to our humble dwellings, as well as to experience 
their hospitality on board. The recollection of the 
polite and kind attentions of Captain Gambler, Captain 
Elliot, and other gentlemen of the ship, is still grateful 
to the Missionaries and the inhabitants of Huahine. 
In a week or two after the departure of the Dauntless, 
the colonial government cutter Mermaid arrived in Fare 
harbour, on her way to the Sandwich Islands, with a 
small schooner, the Prince Regent, as a present from the 
British government to the king of those islands. The 
captain intimated his intention of touching at the 
Marquesas on his return from Hawaii, and politely 
