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MISSIONARY TOUR 
of attending the monthly missionary prayer meeting. 
About five o’clock the service commenced. I gave an 
address from the Saviour’s commission to the first 
missionaries to the heathen. Matt, xxviii. 19. “Go 
ye, therefore, and teach all nations.” The audience 
appeared gratified with the brief account given of the 
missionary operations of the present day, especially 
those among the various clustering islands of the Pa¬ 
cific, with whose inhabitants they feel themselves more 
particularly identified, than with the native tribes of 
Africa or Asia. It was a circumstance truly animat- ^ 
ing to see so many of those who, wrapt in the thick 
darkness of paganism, had till lately worshipped the 
work of their own hands, and “ sacrificed” their fellow- 
creatures “to devils,” now joining in concert with 
Christians of every nation, in praying for the spread 
of the gospel of Jesus throughout the world. 
After breakfast on the 8th, I visited a neat strong- 
brick house, which stands on the beach, about the 
middle of the district. It was erected for Tarneh ame¬ 
lia ; appears well built, is forty feet by twenty, has 
two stories, and is divided into four rooms by strong 
boarded partitions. It was the occasional residence 
of the late king, but by the present is used only as a 
warehouse. Several persons who appeared to have the 
charge of it, were living in one of the apartments, and 
having looked over the house, and made some inquiries 
about the native timber employed for the floor, beams, 
&c. I sat down on one of the bales of cloth lying in 
the room where the natives were sitting, and asked 
them if they knew how to read, or if any of them at¬ 
tended the school, and the religious services on the 
Sabbath? On their answering in the negative, I ad- 
