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Although finishing the vessel, and printing, 
required the greater number of the Missionaries to 
continue in Eimeo, these duties did not detain the 
whole, but left several at liberty to extend, in some 
degree, their efforts. Matavai, the original Mis¬ 
sionary station, was the first that was re-occupied. 
Mr. Wilson, one of the Missionaries who first 
landed from the Royal Admiral in 1801, resumed 
his labours here in the early part of 1818, within 
a quarter of a mile of the spot from which he had 
been obliged to fly when the Mission was broken 
up in the close of the year 1809, and not far from 
the place where Mr. Lewis was murdered. 
Mr. Bicknell, accompanied by Mr. Tessier, 
formed a station under the auspices of Tati, in the 
populous district of Papara. A new station was 
also commenced by Mr. Crook and Mr. Bourne at 
Papaoa, in the district of Faa; and when the 
Haweis was finished, Mr. Darling joined Mr. Wil¬ 
son at Matavai. At the urgent request of Utami, 
the chief of the populous district of Atehuru, he 
subsequently commenced a Mission among his 
people at Bunaauia, or Burder’s Point, whither 
Mr. Bourne also repaired. 
The two stations at Eimeo being on opposite 
sides of the island, occasioned us frequent jour¬ 
neys from Afareaitu to Papetoai. These excur¬ 
sions, although they gave us an opportunity of 
examining more extensively the aspect of the 
country and the state of its inhabitants, often 
proved fatiguing. Sometimes we walked along 
the beach to Papeare, several miles to the north of 
our abode—ascended a low ridge of mountains, 
extending nearly to the sea—crossed the elevated 
eastern range—and continuing our way through 
the defiles and ravines of the interior mountains, 
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