88 POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
Campbell, also arrived shortly afterwards; but 
Captain Campbell, receiving the letter, was warned 
of his danger, and not only secured his own vessel, 
but succeeded in rescuing the schooner and her 
crew. 
In the year 1809, Mr. Nott alone remained with 
the king and the people in the island of Eimeo; 
the other Missionaries, with the exception of 
Mr. Hayward, removed from Huahine to Port 
Jackson. Although the gospel had been faithfully 
and constantly preached, for some years in Tahiti, 
occasionally in most of the other islands, and. many 
of the people had imbibed a tolerably clear specu¬ 
lative knowledge of the leading doctrines taught in 
the sacred volume, yet there was no individual on 
whom they could look, as having been benefited 
by their instructions—no one whose mind was 
savingly enlightened, or whose heart had expe¬ 
rienced any moral change. Discouraging as these 
circumstances were, the Missionaries would not 
have abandoned their station, but for the destruc¬ 
tion with which the civil war, and the defeat of 
the king, seriously threatened them; and, in addi¬ 
tion to this darkened aspect of affairs, as it 
regarded the success of their enterprise, the state 
of feeling, bordering on hopeless despair, under 
which they departed from the islands, greatly aug¬ 
mented their distress. On their arrival in New 
South Wales, they were received with kindness by 
their friends, and a feeling of compassion at their 
disasters, and sympathy in their distress, was mani¬ 
fested by the governor, the Rev. S. Marsden, the 
principal chaplain, and other friends of the Mission. 
While in Port Jackson, they received affection¬ 
ate and encouraging letters from the Society, and 
their friends in England, and communications of a 
