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Selwyn being on shore filling water-casks and Bishop Tyrrell minding 
the ship. Stones were thrown and arrows were shot, but the calmness 
of the whole party undoubtedly saved them from being massacred. 
The Border Maid was found to be defective in gear and sails and 
was sold the next year. The natives who had been brought up to 
Auckland in her were taken to Sydney and were returned to their 
homes in a chartered brig named Gratitude. A voyage was made in 
the brig Victoria in 1853 as far as Norfolk Island and the Loyalties, 
the Bishop being accompanied by the governor of New Zealand, Sir 
George Gray. Thus Bishop Selwyn completed seven voyages to Mel- 
anesia. Anyone who has visited the islands of Melanesia and has 
had experience with the tropical heat and the wet and muggy atmos- 
phere, would hardly say that he had been on a “yachting cruise”’ 
and when one considers the smallness of the Undine and the Aicitniel 
space in which the Bishop and his passengers lived, and their sen- 
sations in being hove-to in the tropics for 48 hours during a hurricane, 
their food salt beef or pork and biscuits, one marvels at the courage 
and determination and endurance of this great hero. ‘There were not 
wanting those who viewed with great disfavor the Bishop’s missionary 
voyages; he was frequently told that he had plenty to do at home 
without taking up this new work; but who can dictate to a St. Paul? 
The fruit of the Bishop’s devoted labor is seen to-day in the great 
missionary diocese of Melanesia. 
When Selwyn visited a strange place his habit was to jump out from 
his whaleboat when 10 to 20 yards from the shore, and then to wade or 
swim to the beach; on his shoulders he strapped numerous presents, 
consisting of tomahawks, fish-hooks, handkerchiefs, prints, red tape. 
‘To the people who stood awaiting him on the beach he gave presents; 
he wrote down any names of people that he could obtain (how did he 
keep his notebook dry?), and made lists of words for future use. He 
bought their yams or coconuts and established friendly relations 
with them. In some places he produced one of the native boys who 
accompanied him and used him as a tame decoy, hoping to get a lad to 
accompany him. The Sydney Bulletin pictures to-day of missionaries 
in top hats and frock coats are at least 50 years behind the times. It 
was a common report in the Mission and it is an indisputable fact that 
both Selwyn and Patteson often went ashore in such regimentals, 
though we of to-day wonder how they managed to endure them. In 
my missionary play “Darkness and Dawn’’ I had represented Bishop 
Patteson as thus attired, but rather than seem to give countenance to 
the Bulletin idea I changed the dress. Bishop Wilson, on looking up 
his diary, wrote me that George Sarawia, Bishop Patteson’s deacon, 
had informed him that he recollected the Bishop so dressed when he 
first saw him in the islands. The London Missionary Society also 
