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to the Leeward Islands, where contrary winds de^ 
tained him and his companions for three months. 
During this period he was much among the people, 
preached to attentive congregations on the Sab¬ 
bath and other days, and was happy to find that 
those whose names had been written down at 
Tahiti continued stedfast. He also added to their 
number thirty-nine others, whose names, at their 
own desire, were recorded as the professed wor¬ 
shippers of the true God. When he left them, 
they expressed the deepest regret, and requested 
that one of the Missionaries would come and re¬ 
side among them. Pomare was also on board the 
same vessel when it was driven from the shores of 
Eimeo, and exerted his influence to persuade the 
people of the Leeward Islands to embrace the 
Christian religion. 
Before Mr. Nott visited the Society Islands, he 
finished the translation of the Gospel of Luke ; and, 
in the course of the same year, the Missionaries 
sent a copy of their catechism to New South Wales^ 
to be printed there. They were exceedingly anx¬ 
ious to obtain a supply of elementary books, as the 
spelling books from England were expended, and 
the desire for instruction had increased to such a 
degree, that upwards of two hundred scholars 
attended their school at Papetoai. 
About this time, several of the chiefs of 
Raiatea, &e. and many of their adherents, who 
had come up in 1811 to assist Pomare in the re¬ 
covery of his government and authority in Tahiti, 
returned to their own islands ; not, however, with¬ 
out most earnestly requesting the Missionaries to 
send them teachers and books. 
Tamatoa and his brother, with other chiefs, had 
been residing for some time at the Missionary 
