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native Missionaries. Among this class, also, as 
might naturally be expected, have been expe- 
rienced the most distressing apprehensions of 
the consequences of sin, and the greatest com- 
punction of mind on account of it. Many of them 
immediately changed their names, and others 
would be happy to obliterate every mark of that 
fraternity, the badges of which they once consi- 
dered an honourable distinction. I have heard 
several wish they could remove from their bodies 
the marks tataued upon them, but these figures 
remain too deeply fixed to be obliterated, and per- 
petually remind them of what they once were. It 
is satisfactory to know, that not a few have enjoyed 
a sense of the pardoning mercy of God, and though 
some have been distressed in the prospect of death, 
others have been happy in the cheering hope, not 
of a pagan elysium, or a sensual sort of Turkish 
paradise, but of a holy and peaceful rest in the 
regions of blessedness. : 
One of these, whose name was Manu, bird, 
resided at Bunaauia, in the district of Atehuru. 
His age and bodily infirmities were such as to 
prevent his learning to read, yet he constantly 
attended the school, and, from listening to others, 
was able to repeat with correctness large portions © 
of the scriptures, which were regularly read by the 
pupils. From meditation on these, he derived the 
highest consolation and support. He was an early 
convert to Christianity; his deportment was uni- 
formly upright; his character respected by all who 
knew him; and for several years before his death, 
he was a member of the Christian church at Bur- 
der’s Point. The recollection of the abominations 
and iniquity of which he had been guilty while a 
member of the Areoi institution, though not greater 
