246 SANTA CRUZ. 
In 1881 Mr. Lister Kaye joined Wadrokal at Nelua, and thus was 
the first white man after Mendania’s party to live on Santa Cruz. 
Wadrokal had made friends with the people and they had built him 
a good house, and a few of them were coming for instruction. The 
natives were found to be hospitable and friendly, and the attitude 
of suspicion and distrust with which they had been regarded owing to 
their attacks on the whites now seemed likely to be dispelled. Wad- 
rokal was withdrawn in 1883 owing to illness, and the Bishop lamented 
that he had no native volunteer helper to place at Santa Cruz. One 
or two attempted to stay, but the excitable character of the people 
and the loneliness proved too much for them. Wadrokal returned in 
1884, and was present at Nukapu when the Bishop and Mr. Kaye 
erected Bishop Patteson’s cross there. Boys were taken the same year 
to Norfolk Island from Santa Cruz for the first time, but some of them 
died. Little progress was made with the mission work in these years, 
and there were no baptisms except those of scholars at Norfolk Island. 
The son of the chief of Nelua, Natei, and his afhanced bride were 
allowed to go up to Norfolk Island, where they were afterwards bap- 
tized and given the names of James Goodenough and Monica. James 
was named after the Commodore, and Mrs. Goodenough was respon- 
sible for the cost of his education, but he never seemed to be satis- 
factory, and eventually had to be disrated. His wife was a very good 
woman and proved very helpful in keeping the women together. 
Santa Cruz has all along suffered from a want of firm and reliable head 
teachers, though Daniel Melamakaule did good work at Te Motu and 
Henry Leambi was ever a gentle and quiet Christian gentleman. 
In 1887 Mr. Forrest replaced Mr. Kaye, and the Bishop also spent a 
short time ashore and visited the villages on the north coast. By this 
time the school at Nelua was fairly well attended, but the teaching 
had been intermittent. A small school was started on Niflole by a 
lad named Moses Tepukeia, who had been baptized at Norfolk Island. 
In 1889 Mr. Forrest started a school at Te Motu, a village on the 
island Guerta, at the west entrance to Graciosa Bay, and he had Dr. 
Welchman to assist him. Mr. Forrest and Daniel Melamakaule 
were shot at near Te Motu, on account of jealousy between two 
villages, they having had occasion to cross from one village to another, 
thus incurring the enmity of their attackers. ‘Their courage and 
firmness alone saved them. ‘The first adult baptisms were also held 
this year, six people being baptized at Nelua. The separation of the 
sexes is very closely observed in Santa Cruz, and separate schools had 
to be kept for the women; the one at Nelua was ably managed by 
Monica and Fanny. At Nifilole the men and the women are never 
together in public, not even in the gardens or in performing any house- 
hold work, and the absence of capable women teachers in the Reefs 
has proved a great hindrance. 
