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midst of wolves,”*' and concluded the service in 
the usual manner. 
The arrangements for the voyage being com¬ 
pleted, we assembled at the chapel about ten 
o’clock on the forenoon of the 25th of February : 
the native Christians were animated by kind and 
appropriate addresses from the church, and were 
affectionately encouraged by Mr. Barff and 
Mr. Orsmond, the latter being on a visit with us. 
The native Missionaries then took leave of their 
fellow-Christians in a most solemn and impressive 
manner; and, as it had been arranged by 
Mr. Barff and myself that I should accompany 
them, to aid in the commencement of their la¬ 
bours, I addressed the people, and, recommending 
Mrs. Ellis and our dear children to their kind atten¬ 
tions under God, I also bade them farewell. The 
meeting was peculiarly impressive and affecting; 
and, after mutually committing each other, under 
deep intensity of feeling, to the guidance and the 
keeping of the God of all our mercies, the whole 
congregation walked from the chapel to the 
sea-shore, where we exchanged our last saluta¬ 
tions. The deputation, the two native Missionaries 
and their wives, five other natives and myself, now 
embarked, and the Mermaid stood out to sea. 
The weather was on the whole pleasant, and we 
reached the Sandwich Islands in about a month 
after our departure from Huahine. 
While supping at our table, on the night pre¬ 
vious to our embarkation, the captain had, in 
answer to Mrs. Ellis’s inquiries, assured her that 
he expected to return in three months ; but seven 
months passed without any appearance of our 
vessel. In the mean time, a piratical ship touched 
* Matt. x. 16. 
