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Patteson went ashore in several places at Santa Cruz and was well 
received. Two years later an attack was made upon his boat in 
Graciosa Bay, and Edwin Nobbs and Fisher Young were shot with 
arrows and died of tetanus. The reason for the attack was that they 
probably were taken for ghosts, duka, and ghosts being really unsub- 
stantial could not be harmed by arrows. The natives have short- 
lived memories and are slow to receive impressions, and have no 
power of making comparisons or of drawing inferences, and though 
the news of the white men’s coming must have been generally spread 
abroad, yet it would be long before it got into the minds of the people 
that these were real men like themselves, and came from a real country 
in a real canoe like their own sailing canoes, /oju, and were not merely 
unsubstantial ghostly figures, embodied spirits of their ancestors. 
In 1870 Bishop Patteson landed at Nukapu, and in the following 
year he was killed there, Mr. Atkin and Stephen Taroaniaro being 
shot at the same time and dying afterwards of tetanus. The reason 
for the attack was to avenge the abduction and, to their mind, death, 
of five natives who had been kidnapped by a labor vessel a few days 
previously. In 1875 Commodore Goodenough was killed at Carlisle 
Bay, on Ndeni, a few miles east of Nelua. The attack on him seems 
to have been caused by jealousy between two villages, the attacking 
party being unfriendly to his guides and resenting his approaching 
them from the enemy’s village, whereas had he not thus gone through 
the villages no attack would have been made. 
In 1877 communications were opened up again with the group after 
these two murders. Bishop John Selwyn was rescued and returned 
to Nupani with Te Fonu, one of two men who had been blown away 
and who were being kept at Port Adam, Malaita, as “‘live heads,” 
ready for killmg when needed. Mano Wadrokal, the native deacon 
from Nengone, with his wife, Carrie, volunteered the next year to leave 
Bugotu, where he had settled, and begin a school on Nifilole, Te Fonu’s 
home. Wadrokal reported that the population of Nukapu had been 
greatly reduced by sickness; he himself was ill owing to want of food 
and of good water and was taken away from the Reefs. ‘The follow- 
ing year the Bishop took a party of men from Nifilole accompanied by 
Wadrokal, and thus made friends with the people of Ndeni. While 
Wadrokal was at Nifilole a number of people from the mainland crossed 
over to the Reefs and visited him and made friends, and at his own 
request he was set down at Nelua to endeavor to start a school. All 
honor must be paid to the brave Wadrokal settling thus alone in the 
midst of these excitable and warlike people. His own spirit seems to 
have been a mettlesome one, and his white fathers found him hard to 
control, but he was ever a pioneer, and he paved the way for gentler 
and less fiery successors. 
