SALUTATIONS OF FRIENDS. 3J7 
noon. Here we received a cordial welcome 
from our friends Messrs. Orsmond, Williams, and 
Threlkeld, who were fully occupied in their new 
sphere of labour, and attached to the people; by 
whom they were respected, and among whom 
they had reason to believe they were usefully 
employed. 
Mr. Orsmond appeared to sustain his bereave¬ 
ment with Christian fortitude. We visited the 
grave of the first labourer that had been called 
from our little band, and (with mingled feelings of 
regret at her early departure from the field we 
had unitedly cultivated, and sympathy with him 
whom she had left behind,) beheld the humble 
mound under which her mortal remains were 
reposing, and around which a number of indigenous 
and exotic flowers had been planted.—Mr. Wil¬ 
liams and Mr. Orsmond had for some time past 
preached in the native language. They were not 
only anxious to instruct the people in religion, 
but to improve their present condition by encou¬ 
raging them to build comfortable houses after our 
example, and to bring under cultivation a larger 
portion of the soil than they had hitherto been 
accustomed to enclose. While we remained, we 
visited the different parts of the district, and called 
upon the king,—whom we were delighted to find 
in a neat plastered house,—and, after spending 
two or three days with them at Vaoaara, we re¬ 
turned to Huahine. 
No circumstances connected with the station at 
Raiatea afforded us more satisfaction, than the 
favourable appearance under which the education 
of the inhabitants had been commenced. 
Next to the direct communication of the gospel 
by the living voice, the schools have been con- 
