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different times introduced, were also growing re- 
markably well. 
Soon after we reached Huahine, a number of 
those who accompanied us from Eimeo, with some 
of the chiefs of the island, united in clearing and 
fencing a large piece of ground, which they planted 
with the best seeds they could procure, and called 
aqua vavae, cotton-garden. The females were the 
most active in this work. Whether they were 
more anxious than the other sex to obtain foreign 
articles of dress, and the conveniences and the 
comforts of domestic life—or whether, feeling more 
peculiarly their obligations to Christianity, and 
desiring to take the lead in the introduction of 
those habits which they had been taught to con- 
sider as the necessary result of its principles, and 
the accompaniments of a Christian profession—it 
is unnecessary to determine; but they laboured 
diligently and perseveringly, cutting down in the 
mountains wood for the fencing, employing their 
own servants to transport it to the shore, clearing 
away the brushwood, enclosing the ground, dig- 
ging the soil, planting the seed, watching with 
constancy its growth, and carefully gathering the 
cotton. 2 
In order to encourage and direct them by our 
example, Messrs. Barff, Orsmond, and myself, 
having obtained permission from the owners of the 
valley in which we resided, employed natives to 
clear away the trees and bushes with which it was 
overgrown, for the purpose of planting it with 
coffee, sugar- cane, or cotton. On this we also be- 
stowed personally many an hour, desirous not only 
to afford those who were inclined to follow our 
advice, and cultivate the earth for‘articles of 
commerce, the encouragement of our counsel and 
