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LIBRARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Mrs. SARAH P. WALS WORTH. 
 
 Received October, 1804. 
 ^Accessions No.\Jo5' I A Class No. 
 
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THE 
 
 NIGHT OF TOIL; 
 
 A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT 
 
 LABORS OF THE FIRST MISSIONARIES 
 
 THE SOUT 
 
 SLANDS. 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR OF THE "PEEP OF DAY." 
 
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 Master, -we liave toiled all the night, and have taken nothing ; neverths. 
 less at thy word I will let down the net. LUKE 5 : 5. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE 
 
 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 
 
 150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 : 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Departure of the Duff from England, and its arrival at Ta- 
 hiti, 7 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 hat the Missionaries did during the first week they spent 
 at Tahiti, . . . . . . . 15 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 How the Missionaries first attempted to do good to the na- 
 tives, . . ... . . . .35 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The singular manners and the wicked customs of the people 
 of Tahiti, .* 36 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Sheep among wolves, . . . . . . . 47 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Continued unbelief of the natives, .... 56 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 A pleasant surprise, 61 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 How the natives behaved when the Missionaries preached, 68 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 The deaths of three of the royal family, . . .75 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 The first Tahitian who learned to write, , . . 81 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Darker days than any that had gone before, succeeded by very 
 bright ones, .94 
 
4 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. PAGE 
 
 The joyful discovery, 106 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 How the idols were publicly insulted, . . . 113 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 The battle which changed the state of Tahiti, . ..121 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 The wilderness turned into a garden, . . . 130 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 TheBaba, . 140 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 Questions the natives asked about religion, . . 148 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 What the natives valued above all things else, . . 156 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 The chapel with three pulpits, . . . . 165 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 The new customs of Tahiti, 173 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 The strangers from the solitary isle, . . . 180 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 Death of Pomare II., 191 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 The royal marriage, 200 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 The coronation of the little king, .... 212 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 What befell Tahiti in the latter days of the first Missiona- 
 ries, 222 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 THE moral change that has lately taken place in the 
 South Sea Islands has attracted general attention. As it 
 appeared desirable to present the history of this change 
 in a form acceptable to youth, the particulars have been 
 carefully collected from various sources, especially from 
 the journals and letters of the missionaries, published in 
 the seven volumes of "Missionary Transactions," and 
 " The Quarterly Chronicle." Several more widely circu- 
 lated works have also been consulted. 
 
 No attempt has been made by the slightest exaggera- 
 tion to heighten the interest of this narrative. It is hoped 
 that its adherence to facts will be a strong recommenda- 
 tion in the eyes of youth, who, while they much prefer 
 narrative to didactic writing, show, by the earnest and 
 oft-repeated inquiry, " Is it true ?" that they value truth 
 above fiction. As the habit of reading fiction tends to 
 blunt this salutary predilection, would it not be better to 
 encourage the young to seek relaxation in manual em- 
 ployments, and in active sports, rather than permit them 
 to indulge in this species of reading ? A fondness for 
 reading cannot be desirable, if that fondness extends to 
 works that not only indispose to useful studies, but may 
 be the vehicles of much evil. Many fabricators of tales, 
 being destitute of principle, and having it in their powSr 
 to describe the results of actions to be whatever they 
 please, leave a false and pernicious impression on the 
 
 
6 PREFACE. 
 
 reader's mind. Even those writers of fiction who desire 
 to inculcate a good moral, may unintentionally misrepre 
 sent the dealings of God with men. But the narrator of 
 facts walks upon firm ground. He who undertakes to 
 delineate the dealings of God in his providence, affords so 
 many instances of the truth of his word. 
 
 The history of the mission in the South Seas illustrates 
 the doctrines of the depravity of man, of the misery of the 
 wicked, of the blessedness of patient continuance in well- 
 doing, and of the power of God in changing the hearts 
 of the most obdurate. If any refuse to believe the testi- 
 mony of the Lord in his word, none can deny the evidence 
 of well-authenticated facts. The Scriptures themselves, 
 frequently invite us to consider the events of Providence. 
 
 " Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even 
 they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord." 
 Psalm 107 : 43. 
 
 No candid and Christian mind will sympathize less in 
 the sufferings, or rejoice less in the success of the devoted 
 missionaries of the South Seas, on account of any slight 
 points of difference in discipline, or in forms of public 
 worship. We should not forget our union with the uni- 
 versal church of Christ ; and when one member suffers, 
 we ought to suffer with it, and when one member is hon- 
 ored, to rejoice with it. 1 Cor. 12 : 26. 
 
 When we consider the deep darkness in which the 
 heathen are involved, how insignificant do those shades 
 of sentiment appear which exist among true Christians 
 shades which will soon be lost in the light of celestial 
 glory. 
 
THE 
 
 NIGHT OF TOIL, 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 DEPARTURE OF THE DUFF FROM ENGLAND, AND ITS ARRIVAL AT 
 TAHITI. 
 
 ON the other side of this earth there is an immense 
 tract of water, called the South Seas. It is sprinkled 
 with islands, as the grass is dotted with flowers in 
 spring, or the sky is adorned with stars on a dark 
 night. 
 
 I am going to give an account of one of these isl- 
 ands called Ta-hi-ti,^ and I shall speak a little of 
 some other islands that lie near it. 
 
 Tahiti was first seen by an English captain called 
 Wallis in the year 1767. It is a most beautiful place. 
 In the midst of the island mountains rise that reach 
 the clouds, thick groves grow almost close to the 
 shore, and clear streams run down the mountain 
 sides into the sea. 
 
 It is always summer there, while fresh sea-breezes 
 make the air pleasant. 
 
 * The name of the island is pronounced as if spelt thus 
 Tah-hee-tee. The vowels in Tahitian names are called like 
 those in French. 
 
8 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 You will desire to know what kind of people liv- 
 ed in this lovely island when Captain Wallis dis- 
 covered it. 
 
 The inhabitants were tall and stout, with brown 
 skins, dark eyes, and glossy black hair. They ap- 
 peared merry and good-natured, and were generally 
 laughing and playing. 
 
 "When Captain Wallis returned to England, and 
 described the islands of the South Seas, a great 
 many people wished to see them. Other ships paid 
 visits to Tahiti, and brought back more accounts of 
 it, of the fine fruit-trees that grew there, and of the 
 pleasant life the inhabitants led. There were some 
 persons, however, who read these accounts with great 
 sorrow. You are surprised to learn that any people 
 were sorry to hear of so delightful a place. But wait 
 a little, and you will not be surprised. I have not 
 told you yet the character of the people who lived 
 in Tahiti : they were thieves, liars, and murderers 
 could they be happy ? 
 
 There were some people who loved God in Eng- 
 land, who were grieved to think of the poor natives 
 of Tahiti. "Ah," thought they, "you may sit be- 
 neath your spreading trees, eating the golden bread- 
 fruit, or drinking the sweet milk of the cocoa-nut; 
 but how can you be happy when you know not of 
 the paradise above, nor of the Saviour who can wash 
 out your many crimes in his blood ? for soon death 
 
THE DUFF SAILS. 9 
 
 will snatch, you from your sunny isle, and bring you 
 before the judgment-seat." 
 
 Did these people in England think it enough to 
 grieve for the poor Tahitians ? No they remem- 
 bered who had said, "Go ye into all the world, and 
 preach the Gospel to every creature ;" and they 
 formed a plan to send the Gospel to Tahiti. 
 
 Several gentlemen consulted together and collected 
 money, and inquired whether any pious men would 
 go as missionaries to the South Sea Islands. 
 
 At last they found thirty men who consented to 
 go. Only four of these men were ministers : the rest 
 understood useful trades. Six of them had wives, 
 who were to go with them, as well as three children 
 belonging to them. The gentlemen who agreed to 
 send them out were called "The Directors of the 
 London Missionary Society," because they met and 
 consulted together in London. They bought a ship 
 called the Duff, and found a very pious captain named 
 Wilson to manage it. 
 
 The missionaries embarked from London on the 
 river Thames, August 10, 1796, at six o'clock in the 
 morning. A beautiful flag waved in the wind as they 
 set sail it was purple, with three doves bearing 
 olive-branches in their bills. It was not a ship oi 
 war, but a ship of peace, into which these holy men 
 had entered. As they sailed down the river they 
 sung the hymn beginning, 
 
10 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 " Jesus, at thy command, 
 We launch into the deep." 
 
 The sailors in the ships they passed listened with 
 surprise to the sweet sounds. Many of their friends 
 stood on the shore, and waved their hands, never ex- 
 pecting to see them more, till they met before God's 
 throne on high. 
 
 On March 5, 1797, after a voyage of seven months, 
 they beheld at a great distance the high mountains 
 of Tahiti. The next day, at seven o'clock in the 
 morning, the ship was very near the shore ; but as 
 it was the Sabbath, the captain would not land im- 
 mediately. 
 
 The natives of Tahiti saw the ship, and many, 
 jumping into their canoes, soon reached it. About 
 seventy-four canoes, some holding twenty people, 
 surrounded the ship very early. 
 
 The captain tried to prevent the natives getting on 
 deck, as he did not wish to have a crowd and con- 
 fusion in his ship. But the natives easily climbed up 
 the ship's side, for they were most active creatures, 
 and expert climbers and swimmers. 
 
 As soon as they were in the ship, they began 
 jumping, laughing, and shouting, to express their joy 
 at the ship's arrival. They hoped to get a quantity 
 of knives, and axes, and useful things but knew 
 not what heavenly blessings were going to be offered 
 to them. 
 
ARRIVAL OF THE MISSIONARIES. 11 
 
 The missionaries looked at the savage creatures 
 with eagerness, anxious to see what sort of people 
 they were going to live among: and they did not 
 much like their wild appearance, though pleased with 
 their good-natured manners. 
 
 The natives had brought a quantity of hogs and 
 fruit with them, which they wished to sell to the 
 ship's company for knives and other things; but no 
 one would buy them, because it was the Sabbath. 
 The missionaries tried to make the natives under- 
 stand that it was the day of their God, who did not 
 allow them to sell and buy upon it. After a short 
 time most of the Tahitians went back in their ca- 
 noes ; but about forty remained on deck. Here the 
 missionaries determined to have service. While they 
 prayed, the natives watched them in silence. Then 
 they sung a hymn to a charming tune, and while 
 'they were singing, the natives were so much en- 
 chanted with the sound, that they could hardly re- 
 frain from expressing their joy. The hymn begins 
 thus: 
 
 " O'er those gloomy hills of darkness, 
 Look, my soul, be still, and gaze ; 
 All the promises do travail 
 With a glorious day of grace ! 
 
 Blessed Jubilee, 
 Let thy glorious morning dawn." 
 
 Afterwards Mr. Cover preached upon "God i 
 love." 
 
J2 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 The service was concluded by singing, 
 " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow." 
 
 Soon afterwards, two men arrived in a canoe. 
 They were white men from Sweden : one had been 
 shipwrecked, and the other left at Tahiti, a few 
 years before. They were dressed like savages, and 
 their names were Peter and Andrew. The mission- 
 aries were glad to see them, because they knew a 
 little English as well as Tahitian; so that they could 
 explain what the natives said, and also tell the mis- 
 sionaries many things about the islands. However, 
 they turned out to be very wicked men ; for though 
 they had been born in a Christian land, they were 
 even worse than the heathen. 
 
 Peter and Andrew, as well as about thirty of the 
 natives, wished to sleep that night in the ship. The 
 missionaries watched all night by turns, as they were 
 afraid lest their visitors should do some harm. They 
 remained, however, quiet. 
 
 Amongst the Tahitians was one old man that 
 seemed to be looked up to by the rest as a great 
 person. He was a high-priest to the idol gods. His 
 name was Mane-mane. He was very anxious to 
 make the captain his friend ; because it was a cus- 
 tom in Tahiti to choose some person for a friend, and 
 to make him presents, expecting that he would return 
 the kindness when he could. Mane-mane wished to 
 
LANDING OF THE MISSIONARIES. 13 
 
 have the captain " for his friend, because he thought 
 he could get the most from him. At first Captain 
 Wilson refused the honor : hut Mane-mane was so 
 anxious to have his wish, that he woke him at day- 
 light to ask him again. Then the captain, knowing 
 that he was soon going away, and afraid of affronting 
 the priest, consented. Mane-mane was delighted, 
 changed names with him, threw a piece of his cloth 
 round the captain, and asked him for a gun. The 
 captain said he had none to spare, but would give 
 him some presents by and by. 
 
 As it was now Monday, the captain caused the 
 ship to approach nearer to the shore. Most of the 
 natives in the ship threw themselves into the sea, 
 and swam like fish to land : others came from the 
 shore, and brought hogs and fruit to sell; some of 
 which were bought by the voyagers. 
 
 At one o'clock the ship's anchor was cast. It 
 rained so hard that no one left the ship till four 
 o'clock, when the captain, a few of the missionaries, 
 Mane-mane, and the two Swedes, went in a boat to 
 land. The people on shore received the missionaries 
 with delight, showing their joy as they had done 
 before in the ship. 
 
 A chief showed the missionaries an empty house, 
 which he said should be given to them. It was very 
 large, about a hundred feet long, but it was not 
 divided into rooms, and had no furniture. 
 
14 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 The missionaries now saw what sort of a land they 
 were going to live in. It was more beautiful and 
 fruitful than they could have fancied ; yet to them 
 it was like a desert, for it was a heathen land, in 
 which no pleasant fruits of righteousness grew, but 
 only the poisonous weeds of sin. They hoped, how- 
 ever, by their teaching, through God's Spirit, it would 
 become like Eden, the garden of the Lord. 
 
MISSIONARY DOINGS. 15 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 tfHAT THE MISSIONARIES DID DURING THE FIRST WEEK THE* 
 SPENT AT TAHITI. 
 
 AT eleven o'clock the next morning, the captain 
 and a few missionaries again went on shore in their 
 boats with Mane-mane and Peter. The natives, who 
 had crowded on the beach to look at them, when 
 they saw them approaching, ran into the sea to meet 
 them, dragged the boats towards the shore, and tak- 
 ing the captain and missionaries on their shoulders, 
 carried them to land ; so great was their delight at 
 their arrival. 
 
 On the beach the king and queen of Tahiti were 
 waiting. They were both riding on men's shoulders, 
 for it was the custom of the country that the king 
 and queen should never touch the ground, except 
 when they were at home in their own houses ; and 
 as there were no animals larger than pigs in the 
 island, they could only be carried by men. It was 
 reckoned a great honor to ride in this manner, and 
 one* which none of the natives but the king and queen 
 were allowed to have. When the king and queen 
 made a journey, men came with them to help those 
 who carried them, when they were tired ; and in 
 changing from one to another, the king and queen 
 
16 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 never let their feet touch, the ground, but jumped 
 over the head of one man on to the shoulders of the 
 other. The reason they never touched the ground 
 when on a journey was, that whatever land they 
 touched became their own, and their people would 
 have been angry if they had taken away their lands 
 or houses. 
 
 The king's name was Otu. He was about twenty 
 years old. He had a dull and grave look, and did 
 not seem so amiable as the Tahitians in general. 
 The queen was only fifteen, and not grave like her 
 husband. 
 
 The captain told the king, and Peter interpreted 
 what he said, that the missionaries were come to in- 
 struct his people in what would do them good, and 
 that this had been their only reason for leaving Eng- 
 land ; he then asked the king to give them a large 
 piece of land, full of fruit-trees, where they might 
 live and build houses. He told him also, that the 
 missionaries would never fight either for him or 
 against him, but would always be friendly to him, 
 and only wanted him to promise not to hurt them. 
 
 The king promised to do as the captain wished. 
 He said that the large house that had been given to 
 them, belonged to him, and that he would give it to 
 them, as well as a large piece of land. Otu, without 
 dismounting, took the captain by the hand, and led 
 him to the house, and then back to the beach, and 
 
MISSIONARY DOINGS. 17 
 
 so from one place to another, till the captain was 
 tired, and said he must return to the ship. Before 
 they parted, Otu asked him to let the guns he had 
 brought with him be fired. The captain ordered 
 them all four to be fired twice, and then went back 
 with the missionaries to the ship. 
 
 The same evening the king and queen came to the 
 ship, each in a small canoe, accompanied by a ser- 
 vant. They refused to come on deck, saying, that 
 if they touched the ship it would be theirs, and none 
 but their own servants might eat or dwell there after- 
 wards. As the captain could not spare his ship, he 
 did not press them to come. 
 
 Wishing to please them, he offered to have the 
 great guns fired ; but the king said he was afraid 
 of so loud a noise, and that it would hurt his ears. 
 The king and queen then told the captain that they 
 had heard there were some white women and chil- 
 dren in the ship, and that they wished very much to 
 see them, as they had never seen any. I suppose 
 that this was their reason for coming that evening to 
 the ship. The women and little children came to 
 the ship's side, where they could be seen by the 
 king and queen. Little Sammy Hassel was a babe 
 in arms. At the sight of these white faces the royal 
 pair cried out with wonder and pleasure. 
 
 The visitors could not, however, stay longer, for 
 the sky was darkening, and they had only just time 
 
 9 
 Night of Toil. 
 
18 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 to get to shore before a storm of thunder and light- 
 ning came on. 
 
 On Wednesday morning it rained so hard that the 
 missionaries could not leave the ship till nine o'clock. 
 They were anxious to get early on shore, because 
 they wanted to begin to get their house ready. They 
 went in a large boat, and took their beds and some 
 of their chests with them, but left the women and 
 children in the ship. The captain and some sailors 
 accompanied them. Numbers of natives were wait- 
 ing on the shore, anxious to see them land. The 
 king and queen also were there, riding in state as 
 before. 
 
 The natives helped to carry the chests and beds to 
 the house, and were ready to assist the missionaries 
 as much as they pleased. 
 
 The great work to be done was to divide the house 
 into rooms. The natives went into the woods to 
 gather hollow sticks, called bamboos, which, placed 
 close together, made walls for the rooms. A bed- 
 room was made for each of the missionaries, besides 
 a room for books, another for stores, and another for 
 medicines. A large room at one end was to be used 
 as a chapel. It served also as a hall, for people 
 passed through it to the other rooms. 
 
 About noon Mane-mane brought three hogs ready 
 dressed for dinner. He spread a great cloth on the 
 ground ; the captain and missionaries sat around it 
 
MISSIONARY DOINGS'. 19 
 
 and, after asking God's blessing, ate thankfully, 
 without either knife, fork, spoon, table, or chair. It 
 seemed as if they would not soon be in want of food, 
 for they received a quantity of provisions as presents 
 from the natives. The natives had also dressed their 
 visitors in cloth made of the bark of trees, to show 
 them that they were welcome. 
 
 The missionaries, when they received these gifts, 
 blessed the gracious Giver of every comfort. 
 
 The king and queen were very kind, and held all 
 their hands by turns, and shook hands also with 
 them ; then looked at their clothes and examined 
 them. They were very much pleased with Mr. 
 Lewis' umbrella when he spread it out; but they 
 warned him not to hold it over their heads, as it 
 would then become sacred to their use. 
 
 During the whole day a company of dancers were 
 playing, dancing, and shouting close by. These 
 dancers were a most wicked set of people. They 
 were called Areois > and spent their whole time in 
 going about from place to place, playing antics of all 
 kinds, to amuse themselves and other people. When 
 they danced, their bodies were blackened over with 
 charcoal, and their faces dyed red with the juice of a 
 plant. They ought to have been punished for their 
 idleness ; but instead of that, they were encouraged 
 both by the king and his people. Wherever they 
 went, they were feasted and welcomed ; and, not 
 
20 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 withstanding their wickedness, they were treated 
 with respect. They even expected, when they died, 
 to go to a very beautiful place at the top of a moun- 
 tain, where they should always be enjoying them- 
 selves. It is dreadful to think what murders they 
 often committed. They would not take the trouble 
 to bring up their little children, but always killed 
 them as soon as they were born ; and a great many 
 people in Tahiti followed their horrid example, as 
 you will hear by and by. These idle creatures came 
 near the door of the missionaries' house in the after- 
 noon, and began to box and wrestle, and to knock 
 each other in the face with their heads for sport. 
 Alas, poor ignorant creatures ; they lived like the 
 beasts that perish. How sad it is to think that in 
 Christian lands there are people who act like these 
 wicked heathen. The missionaries were grieved at 
 the sight of these dancers and their follies. 
 
 The natives had been crowding into the house all 
 day, yet they had not stolen any thing : perhaps they 
 had observed that the missionaries were watching 
 them closely ; for, as you have heard before, they 
 were all inclined to thieving, and they even thought 
 there was no harm in it. 
 
 When the evening was coming on, the missionaries 
 requested the natives, who were constantly laughing 
 and talking, to be silent, and then they sung a hymn, 
 and one of them prayed. They liked to praise God 
 
MISSIONARY DOINGS. 21 
 
 before the natives, that these poor heathen might be 
 led to inquire about him. 
 
 The missionaries then requested the natives to go 
 away, and not to return till the morning ; and when 
 they were gone, the little band of Christians held 
 their regular family worship alone and undisturbed. 
 They supped upon the remains of their dinner, and 
 for the first time slept on a heathen shore. Their 
 hearts were overflowing with thankfulness to God 
 for having brought them across the ocean to this dis- 
 tant spot, and for having inclined the hearts of stran- 
 gers to receive them so kindly. All they desired was, 
 that their message might be believed, and that the 
 Lord might be honored by these poor idolaters. 
 
 The next day was Thursday. Early in the morn- 
 ing the natives came to the house, and boiled the 
 water, and prepared cocoa-nuts and bread-fruit for 
 the missionaries' breakfast. 
 
 The missionaries had not yet finished fitting up 
 the house, so that they continued to work hard. How- 
 ever, they went to the ship to dinner, and some 
 of the natives went with them. Otu went in his 
 canoe ; but not being able, on account of his sacred- 
 ness, to enter the ship, he remained paddling near in 
 his canoe, and called out for something to eat. The 
 captain sent him half a roast pig in a dish, and some 
 biscuit. Otu, highly delighted, paddled to the shore 
 with his present. 
 
22 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 The missionaries returned after dinner to their 
 work ; but they did not find the natives so active as 
 before. They were now tired of fetching bamboos ; 
 but upon a reward being promised, they br.ought by 
 evening a good quantity. 
 
 So many presents of food arrived, that the mission- 
 aries began to fear they should not be able to make 
 as many presents in return as the givers would expect, 
 who they knew were interested, covetous creatures. 
 
 On Friday the captain came early from the ship 
 with a box in his boat containing dresses for the king 
 and queen. Otu was, on the beach as usual ; for he 
 had a little shed built near, that he might always be 
 at hand. Peter showed Otu the box, and telling him 
 what was in it, asked him to go with them to a place 
 close to his house, in order that he might be able to 
 dismount. 
 
 The whole party soon stopped under a tree near 
 the king's shed. The captain asked them all to 
 stand in a ring. He then placed the box in the 
 midst, and requested the king to alight from Ms seat, 
 that he might be dressed in his new clothes. But 
 the king only answered, " By and by," and continued 
 to look sullenly at the unopened box. The captain, 
 tired of waiting, opened the box and took out the 
 queen's dress. The instant the queen saw it, she 
 jumped off the man's shoulders, and the king followed 
 her example. She put on the cap, and appeared 
 
MISSIONARY DOINGS. 23 
 
 delighted. The dresses were too small both for her 
 and Otu, who was tall and stout ; arid it was neces- 
 sary to rip some of the seams. The clothes were gay, 
 and the crowd around admired the king and queen 
 much when they were dressed in them ; but Otu did 
 not care for them, and said that a gun, a knife, or a 
 pair of scissors, would have been of more use. Thk 
 was not a polite way of receiving a present, but it 
 was a sensible choice to make ; indeed, though Otu 
 appeared stupid, he had a good understanding, as you 
 will see hereafter. 
 
 Just after the royal pair had been dressed, Mane- 
 mane appeared with some beautiful Tahitian cane in 
 his hand. He called his friend the captain to him, 
 and dressed him in it. They then went together to 
 the missionaries' house, and found the work going on 
 well. A& it was now past noon, the old priest accom- 
 panied the captain to the ship to dinner. 
 
 On Saturday the house was ready for the women 
 and children, although not yet finished ; and after 
 dinner they went to the shore in the largest boat. A 
 very great crowd was assembled on the beach, eager 
 to see, what they had never seen before, white women 
 and children. They were all much delighted with 
 their appearance. The king and queen seemed afraid 
 to come near, or to speak to the women ; but, on be- 
 ing invited, they accompanied the party to the new 
 house. After the women and children were gone 
 
24 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 into it, the crowd still remained outside, and often 
 called to them to show themselves at the door ; and 
 their request was granted. 
 
 Thus the whole family of missionaries were settled 
 in their new abode on Saturday, just one week after 
 they had caught sight of Tahiti. Then they had 
 been full of anxious fears, not knowing how they 
 should be treated by the savages ; but now they 
 blessed God for giving them favor in the eyes of the 
 heathen. 
 
 They told the natives, that the next day was the 
 day of the true God ; and that they should do no 
 work upon it, nor receive any presents. The natives, 
 however, brought them far more than enough food to 
 last them till Monday. They said to the missiona- 
 ries, " Shall you pray more than usual to-morrow ?" 
 The missionaries told them that they should. 
 
 At dusk the natives left the house, as they now 
 always did, without being asked to do so. 
 
 

 MISSIONARIES' SABBATH. 25 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 HOW THE MISSIONARIES FIRST ATTEMPTED TO DO GOOD TO THE 
 NATIVES. 
 
 You shall now hear how the missionaries passed 
 their first Sabbath on a heathen shore. 
 
 They had service in the chapel of their dwelling 
 in the morning. Many of the natives attended and 
 behaved well, though they understood nothing that 
 was said. The king also was present. 
 
 In the afternoon they came again, and then Mr. 
 Jefferson began to speak to them, and Andrew the 
 Swede to interpret each sentence as he spoke it. 
 This was an unpleasant way of preaching, particu- 
 larly as the Swede was a wicked man, and could not 
 speak affectionately to the people, as a pious man 
 would have done. However, the missionaries were 
 so anxious to declare to the poor heathen the good 
 news of a Saviour, that they could hardly bear to 
 wait till they knew the language themselves. 
 
 When the natives saw that Mr. Jefferson was 
 preaching to them, they began to look attentive, and 
 to ask questions in reply. They inquired, " Is this 
 message to the servants, as well as to the king and 
 queen ?" 
 
 The minister told them it was to all. He also 
 
26 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 said, " There is only one true Grod, and all men have 
 offended him by wickedness ; yet he is so merciful 
 that he is willing to forgive all. If any believe his 
 word, he blesses them while they live, and takes 
 them to everlasting happiness." 
 
 The king looked very stubborn and unteachable 
 during the service, and it seemed less likely that he 
 should believe than any of the rest. 
 
 The missionaries retired to rest again that evening, 
 full of hope that God would incline the hearts of the 
 people to believe his word. 
 
 On Monday the captain saw for the first time the 
 grandfather and the father of the king. 
 
 Do not you wonder how it was that Otu was king 
 while they were alive ? for you know it is the cus- 
 tom in most countries for the son not to reign till the 
 father is dead. But this was not the custom in Ta- 
 hiti. As soon as a king had a son, the baby became 
 king, unless his father chose to kill him as soon as he 
 was born. The father from that time rode no more 
 on men's shoulders, and he himself showed respect to 
 his own son, as to a king ; yet the father still had 
 the power of a king, though not all the honor -of a 
 king. 
 
 The father of Otu was called Pomare. He was a 
 very wise man for a heathen. Once he had been 
 only a chief, but he had conquered all the other chiefs 
 in Tahiti, and had become king of the whole island, 
 
POMARE AND OTEU. 27 
 
 as well as of an island near it, called E-i-me-o. He 
 was the largest, tallest man in the whole island, and 
 had a pleasant, cheerful manner. He was still treated 
 with so much respect, that it was thought improper 
 for him to feed himself: when he drank tea in the 
 ship, his servants poured the tea into the saucer, and 
 held it to his mouth. 
 
 His wife Idia accompanied him to the ship. She 
 was a tall, strong woman, who had often shed blood 
 in battles. 
 
 Oteu, the grandfather, was above seventy years 
 old, and had gray hair and a very long white beard. 
 He was treated with great rudeness by his son Po- 
 mare, and his grandson Otu, on account of his age ; 
 for it was one of the sinful practices of Tahiti to treat 
 old men with rudeness. Pomare would hardly let 
 the old rnan come into the captain's cabin when they 
 visited the ship, and tried to make him stay in his 
 canoe. The heathen knew not the command, " Thou 
 shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the 
 face of the old man." 
 
 Pomare had many great faults. He was very fond 
 of eating and drinking. Once when he dined with 
 the captain, he ate a whole fowl, besides two pounds 
 of pork, and drank a great deal of wine. Another 
 day he drank almost a whole bottle of wine, while 
 he appeared unwilling that Mane-mane, who was as 
 fond of good things as himself, should have one single 
 
28 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 glass. The wine was, of course, poured down his 
 throat by his servants. 
 
 Pomare was also very covetous, and did not scru- 
 ple to tell lies when convenient. He made, indeed, 
 handsome presents, but it was only in the hope of 
 getting more in return. The first day he came to 
 the ship, he brought four large pieces of cloth made 
 of bark, and wrapped them round the captain, be- 
 sides four more as a present from his wife. A few 
 days afterwards he came again with another piece 
 of cloth, but this time he brought also a large chest. 
 The captain knew well that Pomare intended that 
 he should fill it with presents, but pretending not to 
 understand, he asked him what it was for. Pomare 
 seemed perplexed at the question, being ashamed to 
 own his intention, and said he only wanted to have 
 the lock repaired. The captain then told him to 
 take it to the shore to the missionaries, and that one, 
 who was a blacksmith, would mend it. This answer 
 perplexed Pomare still more ; but presently he smil- 
 ed, as if a lie was no disgrace, and said, " It is for 
 the presents that you will give to me and my wife 
 Idia. Will you cake it to your cabin, that my peo 
 pie may not see what I receive ?" So Pomare went 
 with his chest into the cabin, and seated himself. 
 The captain then asked him what he would like to 
 have. He seemed at a loss what to choose, but 
 Mane-mane soon helped him, and then he mentioned 
 
THE SABBATH. 29 
 
 the following things. Ten axes, five shirts, eight 
 looking-glasses, six pairs of scissors, six knives, fifty 
 nails, and five combs, and the same number of each 
 of those things for his wife ; besides an iron pot, a 
 razor, and a blanket for himself. The captain gave 
 him all he asked, and locked the things up in the 
 chest, for the lock was perfectly good. Pomare said 
 he was quite satisfied, but as he walked about the 
 ship, and saw many things lying about belonging to 
 the missionaries, ready to be taken to their house, he 
 wanted some part of all. The missionaries, however, 
 knowing his covetous disposition, gave him very little. 
 
 The next Sabbath, at ten o'clock, the missionaries 
 called the natives together under some shady trees 
 near their house. They had placed a long bench 
 there, on which they asked Pomare to sit with them, 
 while the people stood or sat in a circle around. 
 
 Pomare had never been present at the Sunday 
 service before. He had been anxious to come, and 
 said that he nad dreamed of the book which should 
 be sent from the God of England. 
 
 Mr. Cover preached from John 3 : 16. "God so 
 loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, 
 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 
 but have everlasting life." Peter the Swede, as 
 usual, interpreted each sentence. The natives were 
 grave and attentive, though they did not understand 
 the real meaning of the message. 
 
30 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Pomare, after service, took Mr. Cover by the hand 
 and said, "Mai-tai, mai-tai," very good, very good. 
 
 He was then asked, " Did you understand what 
 was said ?" 
 
 He replied, " There were once no such things in 
 Tahiti ; they are not to be learned at once. I will 
 wait the coming of the god." This answer showed 
 that he did not really understand. He then said, 
 " May I come again ?" He was told that he might 
 He and his wife Idia then dined with the mission- 
 aries and departed. 
 
 After some time the blacksmith's shop was built, 
 and the missionaries Hodges and Hassel began to 
 work in it ; the natives crowded round them, but 
 when they saw the sparks fly from the iron, and 
 heard the water hiss, they were frightened and ran 
 away : however, when their fright was over they 
 returned. Pomare was so delighted with the bel- 
 lows and forge, that he caught the blacksmith, all 
 dirty as he was, in his arms, and rubbed noses with 
 him, which was the way of showing affection in 
 Tahiti. 
 
 The missionaries had a cuckoo clock, which terri- 
 fied the natives when they first heard it strike. One 
 man brought some bread-fruit to feed the wooden 
 bird with. 
 
 The missionaries smiled at these little circum 
 stances ; they did not smile, however, but were ready 
 
PRIESTS AND GODS 31 
 
 to weep at the folly of the people respecting their 
 idols. Their favorite god Oro was nothing more than 
 a great log of wood about the size of a man. He 
 was kept in a little shed amongst trees surrounded 
 by a stone wall. In this place there were altars, 
 which were like high tables, and on these lay a 
 quantity of dead pigs, that remained there for months, 
 and filled the air with a horrible odor. This place 
 was called a Marae. Dreadful deeds of cruelty were 
 done in it. Men were sacrificed and hung in large 
 baskets on the trees around, till their flesh was de- 
 cayed. It was horrible to see a marae, or to corns 
 near it. No woman was allowed to approach, as 
 she was not reckoned worthy of the honor ; neither 
 was she considered worthy of being a sacrifice. 
 
 The priests wished the people to give many things 
 to Oro }- because they themselves got all that was 
 given ; so they told the people that the gods would 
 get into their food and kill them, if they did not do 
 all they wished. The priests used to speak instead 
 of the gods : they would sometimes take a great 
 bundle of cloth and roll it up like a ball, and get 
 into it, and then say in a squeaking voice, " I am 
 angry, fetch the hogs, kill a man, and my anger will 
 oe over." The people knew that the priest was in- 
 side the cloth, and yet they were afraid of the god's 
 anger. 
 
 They thought that their gods had made the world, 
 
32 THE NIGHT OF TOIL 
 
 and that one of them had stuck the stars in the sky, 
 and that another very strong god held the sun with 
 ropes, and would not let him go faster than he 
 pleased. 
 
 They kept some gods in their houses : in one house 
 the missionaries saw a great many images, each with 
 a sword or hammer in his hand, and they were told 
 by the priests that those gods would kill any one that 
 offended them, unless the offender offered some sacri- 
 fice for his crime. 
 
 The people fancied their gods were like themselves 
 in disposition. There was one god called Hiro, who 
 they thought protected thieves ; and when they were 
 going to steal, they often promised to give him part 
 of what they should get. A man who had been 
 stealing a pig in the night, would bring a piece of its 
 tail next morning to Hiro, and say, " Here is .a piece 
 of the pig I stole last night ; but don't you tell." 
 There was a large stone in the island, behind which 
 they said Hiro hid himself when he was caught steal- 
 ing, and was ashamed. 
 
 The missionaries found to their cost how much the 
 natives resembled the god Hiro. One day a man 
 stole a box for the sake of the nails that fastened it 
 together ; he was caught and shut up by the mis- 
 sionaries for three hours, and was threatened with 
 a worse punishment another time. Pomare, hearing 
 of it, brought a pig to prevent the missionaries being 
 
CRIMES OF THE NATIVES. 38 
 
 angry, but of course it was not accepted. No won- 
 der Pomare thought that the missionaries were as 
 covetous as their gods. 
 
 The missionaries hired three men as servants to 
 take care of their hogs, which now amounted to 
 seventy, and to help in cooking. These servants soon 
 began to pilfer. One of them, whom they had nursed 
 when he was ill, stole many things, and then left 
 their service. After he was gone, they found out 
 what he had done, and they sent after him and 
 caught him. They reminded him of the kindness 
 they had shown him, and of his behavior in return ; 
 his conscience told him it was wrong to be ungrate- 
 ful, for tears came in his eyes, and he said, " I am a 
 very bad man." 
 
 Another day, while Dr. Gillham was bathing, a 
 native stole his clothes ; the other missionaries pur- 
 sued him, and hearing the sound of a drum, thought 
 that he might be dancing, which was the case. A 
 hundred people were with him, who fled when they 
 saw the missionaries. The thief was brought to 
 their house, and chained to a pillar with a padlock ; 
 but he not only contrived to get away, but to steal 
 the padlock. 
 
 The king one day sent a message to the mission- 
 aries, advising them to discharge their servants be- 
 cause they were thieves, and recommending them to 
 take some of his ; but the missionaries knew too 
 
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 Night of Toil- 
 
34 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 well that the king's servants were greater thieves 
 than any others, because the king was always em- 
 ploying them in stealing things for him, and they 
 felt sure he only wanted them to have his servants, 
 that they might rob them and bring him the things. 
 
 But murder, which is a much more horrible crime 
 than stealing, was quite common. The missionaries 
 tried to persuade Pomare to forbid people to kill 
 their children. They endeavored also to persuade 
 Mane-mane to offer no more human sacrifices. Both 
 Pomare and Mane-mane promised to do as the mis- 
 sionaries wished, but they did not keep their promise 
 
 One Sunday Mr. Lewis preached upon " Thou 
 shalt not kill." The people said afterwards, " Good 
 is the word not to kill children, not to sacrifice men." 
 Mane-mane was observed to whisper something to 
 another native. The missionaries asked him what 
 he had said, and he replied, " I was telling the peo- 
 ple to leave off their wicked ways." Yet he had not 
 left off his own wicked ways. He was like the man 
 to whom Paul speaks in Romans 2:1. 
 
 Before the ship left, Mane-mane was one day ob- 
 served to drink more wine than usual. The reason 
 was, he was going to kill a man, and wanted the 
 wine to keep up his courage, which showed that he 
 felt it to be a horrible work. 
 
 About this time Pomare's wife Idia killed her baby. 
 The missionaries had told her often how wicked it 
 
MURDER AND SACRIFICE. 35 
 
 was to do such things ; they had even promised that 
 their wives would take care of all babies that the 
 natives did not like to bring up. So they were much 
 displeased with Idia. Soon afterwards she came 
 with a large present of hogs to the missionaries ; but 
 they would not accept them, and told Andrew to 
 tell her the reason. She was much offended, and 
 said she should observe the customs of the country 
 without caring for their displeasure ; she would not, 
 however, take back her present. She had before 
 given the missionaries some wood with which to 
 make her a chest. They thought it right to give 
 her this chest, and she carried it off with pleasure. 
 
 The hogs Idia had left, the missionaries desired 
 Mane-mane to divide among the natives ; but he 
 took them all home to his own house. 
 
 Such were the people amongst whom the mission 
 aries lived. They were continually praying for them, 
 and sighing over their lost state, but they could not 
 yet preach to them as much as they wished. 
 
THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE SINGULAR MANNERS AND WICKED CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE 
 OF TAHITI. 
 
 LET us now pause a moment to inquire what 
 were the manners and customs of the people for 
 whose souls these missionaries labored. I will first 
 speak of their food, and of their manner of taking it. 
 
 FOOD. 
 
 No corn nor grapes grew in Tahiti ; therefore the 
 inhabitants could neither eat bread nor drink wine ; 
 but the trees bore an abundance of fruit, upon which 
 the people lived. The chiefs often ate the flesh of 
 hogs, and sometimes of dogs, for both these animals 
 fed chiefly upon fruit. 
 
 Rats were the only beasts, besides hogs and dogs 
 on the island, when first discovered : they were very 
 troublesome, and were always running over the beds 
 and over the food of the people, but they were not 
 eaten by them. Captain Cook had left some cats in 
 Tahiti, which were very useful. 
 
 The Tahitians had no regular times for their 
 meals ; but they generally had three every day 
 They had no iron pots, therefore they could only 
 bake their food in holes in the ground, or broil it on 
 
FOOD. 37 
 
 the ashes of the fire. The most usual dinner was 
 fish and breadfruit. They were served up on leaves, 
 and eaten upon leaves instead of plates. A cocoa- 
 nut shell full of salt water was placed beside each 
 person, and every morsel was dipped in it before it 
 was eaten. English people dislike this sauce very 
 much, but the Tahitians think it gives a relish to the 
 food. Different sorts of fruit were often mixed to- 
 gether, and made into puddings. The only way of 
 heating them was by putting hot stones into the 
 cocoa-nut milk, with which the fruit was mixed. 
 
 But however nice the food was, there was one 
 circumstance that made the meal far less pleasant 
 than one taken in England ; for the father and 
 mother, brothers and sisters, never ate together. 
 The men and boys generally took their meals to- 
 gether in the house ; but each woman and girl ate 
 alone in a little hut built for the purpose. Do you 
 not wonder what could be the reason of so strange a 
 custom ? The reason was, that the Tahitian men 
 called the women common, and not fit to eat with 
 them, who they said were holy : for the same reason, 
 they would not allow women to eat any of the kinds 
 of food that were offered to the gods, such as hogs, 
 fowls, cocoa-nuts, plantains, turtle, and many sorts 
 of fish. All these things were called sacred, and 
 unfit for women. The men and women had also 
 their food kept in different baskets, and cooked at 
 
38 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 different fires. A man would not even drink out of 
 a cup that had been used by a woman. 
 
 HOUSES* 
 
 The houses were generally built by the sea-shore, 
 and under the shade of breadfruit-trees. Their shape 
 was long and narrow ; the walls were made of posts, 
 placed two or three inches apart, so that the passers- 
 by could see into the house, as into a birdcage. There 
 were no windows in them, for none were needed ; 
 there was, however, a door tied by cord to a post at 
 one end. 
 
 The roof was made of reeds, covered with large 
 leaves. These roofs soon became old, and were often 
 repaired. The beds were mats, made of cocoa-nut 
 leaves woven together, and the pillows were blocks 
 of wood. These mats were placed side by side all 
 down the house, and sometimes there were fifty or 
 sixty in one house ; for the Tahitians were fond of 
 company both night and day. The floor was covered 
 with dried grass, which soon became very unpleasant 
 from the food that was spilt upon it. There were 
 no gardens round the house ; but sometimes there 
 was a little court enclosed by a low railing, and a 
 walk made of black and white coral up to the house. 
 
 There was no comfort or peace in these houses, 
 but continual riot, laughing, and talking, even during 
 the night. 
 
DRESS. 30 
 
 When the people travelled, as they often did, they 
 lodged in small sheds by the sea-shore with their 
 canoes ; for they generally went by water, and landed 
 where they wished. 
 
 DRESS. 
 
 The men and women dressed nearly alike. They 
 wore several yards of cloth of bark, wrapped round 
 their bodies, and, over their shoulders, either a shawl 
 or a tiputa. 
 
 You will ask what a tiputa was. 
 
 It was a piece of cloth with a hole in the middle, 
 through which the head passed, while the ends of 
 the cloth hung down before and behind, and were 
 confined round the waist by a girdle. As the cloth 
 was spoilt by the rain, in wet weather matting was 
 worn. 
 
 The natives had one strange custom, called tattoo- 
 ing. They covered their skins with pictures of beasts, 
 birds, flowers, and trees. These pictures were drawn, 
 not with a pencil, but with a sharp fishbone fastened 
 to the end of a stick. After the marks were made, 
 a dark stuff, made of the juice of a plant, was put 
 >nto them. This operation was very painful. It 
 was done to the young people, when about twelve or 
 fourteen years old. The figures were seldom made 
 on the face, but chiefly on the legs and arms. The 
 chiefs were more beautifully tattooed than the com- 
 
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 40 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 mon people, because they hired persons who could 
 tattoo the best, to adorn them. 
 
 The men generally had long hair fastened with a 
 comb on the back of their heads, and the women had 
 short hair, w r hich they arranged with great care, and 
 often adorned with garlands of flowers. The women 
 often wore shades over their eyes made of yellow 
 cocoa-nut leaves, to screen them from the sun, but 
 they never wore bonnets. 
 
 Both men and women thought a great deal of 
 their appearance, and spent much time in trying to 
 make themselves look handsome ; therefore they 
 were extremely fond of looking-glasses, and when 
 they could not get them, they would sit on the bank 
 of a clear stream to dress their hair. 
 
 They bathed three times a day, and thus kept 
 themselves very clean, and improved their health. 
 They were continually going into the sea ; many ba- 
 bies could swim before they could walk, so that there 
 was no danger of their being drowned except when 
 they were at a great distance from land. They always 
 bathed in a stream after they had been in the sea, as 
 they did not like the salt water as well as fresh. 
 IDOLS. 
 
 You already know that the Tahitians worshipped 
 idols. Some were made of stone, but most were 
 made of wood, or of a kind of string called cinet, 
 made from the outside of cocoa-nuts. Some kinds 
 
IDOLS. 41 
 
 of sharks and of birds were worshipped, and were 
 not suffered to be killed. Altogether there were 
 more than a hundred gods worshipped in Tahiti, 
 The people thought that the spirit of the gods dwelt 
 in the idols. As they fancied that they were as cruel 
 and as covetous as themselves, they tried to please 
 them by giving them things. 
 
 I will give you an instance of the manner in which 
 they treated them. They kept live hogs and chick- 
 ens in the maraes, and called these animals sacred. 
 Once a traveller wanted to buy some sacred fowls, 
 as there were no others to be had. The priest of the 
 marae at first did not like to sell them, but when he 
 saw what nice looking-glasses and knives he could 
 get for them, he went to the idol, and said, " my 
 god, here are some beautiful things knives, scissors, 
 looking-glasses perhaps I may sell some of the fowls 
 belonging to us two for them ; they will be good 
 property for us two." He then waited a few mo- 
 ments, while he pretended he was listening to the " 
 god's answer ; then he said that the god had con 
 sented ; and some boys and dogs hunted the fowls, 
 and caught them for the traveller. 
 
 They never thought that their gods would be angry 
 at sin, but fancied they could always be coaxed and 
 made to like those people who gave presents to them. 
 "When they prayed they used to kneel upon one 
 knee, and to repeat their prayers in a sort of singing 
 
42 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 tone, saying something of this kind : " See, I have 
 brought you pigs and fruit ; so be kind to me, and 
 do not let me be drowned ; and let me conquer my 
 enemies." 
 
 How different is our God from their gods ! He 
 cannot bear sin, and* he cares for nothing we can 
 give him. He never could have listened to our 
 prayers, if Jesus had not borne the punishment of 
 our sins ; neither will he listen to us now, unless we 
 come before him in the name of Jesus, asking for 
 mercy for his sake. Therefore David said, " I will 
 wash my hands in innocency, and so will I compass 
 thine altar, God." And John says, " If any man 
 sin, we have an advocate with the Father, even Je- 
 sus Christ the righteous : and he is the propitiation," 
 or sacrifice, " for our sins." 
 
 But the most horrible deed done in these temples 
 was the offering up of human sacrifices. The people 
 thought that Oro, the god of war, liked these better 
 than any other ; so, when they were going to do any 
 thing important, they used to kill men. Perhaps you 
 will inquire what men they killed. When the priest 
 wanted a human sacrifice, he generally sent word tc 
 the king ; and then the king sent a small stone to 
 one of his chiefs, as a sign that he must procure one. 
 If the chief kept the stone, the king knew that he 
 would do as he wished. And whom did the chief fix 
 on as a sacrifice ? Sometimes on the guest who was 
 
TERRORS OF THE NATIVES. 43 
 
 eating beneath his roof. In one moment the unfor- 
 tunate man was killed by a blow on the head, and 
 carried to the temple in a basket of cocoa-nut leaves. 
 Before he was offered up to the god, the priest scooped 
 out one of his eyes, and placing the eye in a leaf, 
 offered it to the king, who opened his mouth, as if he 
 were going to eat it, and then returned it to the priest. 
 
 The body was afterwards hung upon a tree near 
 the temple ; when the flesh was quite consumed, the 
 bones were buried in the sacred court, which was a 
 sort of Golgotha, a place of a skull, and most horri- 
 ble in the eyes of the holy God. 
 
 If one man of a family had been offered up, the 
 other men in it were in great danger of sharing his 
 fate ; for the people of the same family were usually 
 chosen until the whole was destroyed. 
 
 When at midnight the sacred drum was beaten, 
 as a sign that a human sacrifice was required, many 
 poor creatures would escape to the mountains, and 
 hide themselves in the dens and caves of the earth. 
 
 It is not surprising that some men quite forsook 
 the company of their cruel fellow-creatures, wan- 
 dered alone among the mountains, and became almost 
 as fierce and as senseless as the beasts of the forest. 
 
 Death was very terrible to the Tahitians, for they 
 had no bright hopes beyond the grave. They thought 
 that at death their spirits went to their cruel gods, 
 who ate them three times over, and that afterwards 
 
44 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 they went into the body of a beast or bird or man, 
 and lived upon the earth again. 
 
 Sometimes poor creatures, when they have been 
 dying, have looked towards the end of the mat on 
 which they have been lying, and have cried out, " 
 there are the spirits waiting for my spirit guard 
 my spirit when it leaves my body preserve it 
 from them." 
 
 How different were these cries from those of some 
 dying Christian children, who have exclaimed with 
 sweet smiles, " I see the angels coming to take me ; 
 Lord Jesus, I come, I come." 
 
 After a man was dead, his friends used to begin to 
 cut themselves with sharks' teeth, till they were cov- 
 ered with blood, and sometimes even to fight together 
 with clubs and stones for two or three days, till some 
 were killed. It was dreadful to behold one of these 
 fights, and to hear the furious howlings of those who 
 fought. 
 
 When a Christian loses his pious relations, he can 
 
 sing, 
 
 " Why do we mourn departing friends, 
 
 Or shake at death's alarms 1 
 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, 
 To call them to his arms." 
 
 CHARACTER OF THE TAHITIANS. 
 
 You have already heard enough of the people k 
 perceive that they were liars, covetous, thieves, i ad 
 murderers. 
 
TREATMENT OF THE SICK. 45 
 
 They were indeed pleasant in their manners, and 
 good-natured when pleased ; but in many respects 
 they were like beasts, and in others like devils. 
 
 They resembled beasts in their love of eating, and 
 drinking, and idleness ; in hardness of heart, they 
 resembled devils. Their conduct to their aged par- 
 ents, and to their sick friends, was barbarous. When 
 tired of waiting upon a sick person, his relations gen- 
 erally built a little hut for him, and at first fed him, 
 but often left him afterwards to die of hunger. At 
 other times, the relations would throw their spears at 
 the sick man, to see which would thrust him through 
 first. 
 
 I will relate an instance of the murder of one sick 
 man. He was staying with an acquaintance, who, 
 growing tired of him, went one day and dug a hole 
 near the sea-shore, then returned, and offered to take 
 him to bathe. The sick man consented, and was 
 placed upon a board, and carried towards the sea 
 between two men ; but when he came near the hole, 
 he suspected what was going to be done, and he 
 jumped off the board and tried to escape, but his 
 companion threw a stone at him, and thus stopped 
 him, and then forced him into the hole, and buried 
 him alive. His cries were heard at some distance by 
 gome women in a canoe, yet none came to rescue 
 him, or were even shocked when they heard the his- 
 tory. 
 
46 THE NIGHT OF 'TOIL. 
 
 If the Tahitians behaved in this manner to their 
 friends, what must have been their cruelty to their 
 enemies? It was more dreadful than can be con- 
 ceived. They stamped upon the prisoners they had 
 taken in battle, crying out, " Thus would you have 
 trea&d me if you had conquered," and then left the 
 bodies unburied, to be devoured by dogs and birds. 
 Sometimes a hole was made through an enemy's 
 body, and he was worn for a short time as a tiputa 
 by the man who slew him. After a battle the con- 
 querors destroyed all the women and children of 
 their enemies, and even taught their own little chil- 
 dren to loll the little creatures that they would have 
 liked to play with. Sometimes the conqueror put 
 ropes through the necks of his enemies' children, or 
 threaded them like beads on his ppear. God has said 
 in his word, that the feet of men are swift to shed 
 blood. And is not this true ? 
 
 The missionaries came to melt the stony hearts 
 of these people, by telling them of the love of the 
 Son of God. These lions and tigers could be turned 
 into lambs and doves by the Spirit of God. So the 
 missionaries did not cease to pray for them, and to 
 teach them the good and the right way, hoping that 
 Sod would at length give them repentance fox tbeii 
 
WATCHING AJSD PRAYER. 47 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 SHEEP AMONG WOLVES. 
 
 WE will now continue the history of the mission- 
 aries, who stood gazing upon the ship, on the day it 
 left Tahiti, with tears in their eyes, till they could no 
 longer behold it. 
 
 They felt that they were in a very dangerous situ- 
 ation, among wicked men, who coveted all they pos- 
 sessed, and whose hands were often stained with 
 blood ; but they were able to look up to God for sup- 
 port. They set apart a day for fasting and prayer ; 
 on that day they met three times to pray together, 
 and twice more to hear sermons from two of the 
 brethren. They agreed also to hold a prayer-meet- 
 ing once a month for the conversion of the heathen, 
 at the very same time that their friends-in England, 
 in different places of worship, met together for the 
 same purpose. 
 
 But though they placed their strength in God, they 
 thought it right to take all possible pains to defend 
 themselves. All night long two of the brethren 
 watched outside the house, and very often one wa? 
 appointed to watch during the day. 
 
 The day after the ship's departure, the missionary 
 who was watching the house, overheard Idia talking 
 
48 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 with some of the natives about the quantity of prop- 
 erty the brethren possessed. Among other things, 
 he heard it said, that the Sabbath-day would be a 
 good opportunity to take it away, as on that day the 
 brethren would be engaged together in prayer. Idia 
 little thought that the man on guard understood her 
 conversation. Of course he reported it to his friends, 
 who immediately desired all the natives to leave the 
 nouse. Idia was alarmed when she heard of this 
 order, and inquired the reason. When she was 
 reminded of what she had said, she denied it, and 
 sent Peter the Swede to declare that she had been 
 misunderstood, as she had only been talking of a plan 
 made by some bad men in Tahiti. This excuse was 
 probably false ; but the missionaries thought it best 
 to receive it, and to treat Idia with as much respect 
 as usual. However, they were more on their guard 
 than ever on the next day, which was the Sabbath, 
 and did not take the Lord's supper together as they 
 had intended. 
 
 About three weeks afterwards they were robbed in 
 a very singular manner. One morning they missed 
 a great many articles from the blacksmith's shop, 
 and they also observed a hole in the ground of the 
 shop. They soon perceived a thief had entered 
 through this hole, which resembled a rabbit's bur- 
 row, and had an opening outside. They saw that 
 fche hole must have taken more than one night to dig 
 
THE HOSPITAL. 49 
 
 with the hands, the spade the natives usually made 
 use of, and they wondered how it was that the watch 
 had not observed the thief digging in the day. The 
 watch then remembered that he had once remarked 
 the hole, and had seen something, that he had taken, 
 for a hog, coiled up in it ; and now he had no doubt 
 that the supposed hog was the thief. The wicked 
 cunning of the robber excited the astonishment of all. 
 On applying to a chief of that part of the island, the 
 stolen articles were restored. 
 
 In vain the missionaries endeavored to win the 
 natives by kindness. Because they never punished 
 the thieves when detected, they were considered as 
 cowards ; though their reason for forgiving them 
 was, that they remembered that they were ministers 
 of the Gospel, whose office it was to save and not to 
 judge. 
 
 Many of the natives were suffering from terrible 
 diseases ; so the missionaries prepared a place near 
 their house for a hospital, and offered to nurse all 
 who would come ; but the same reasons that prevent 
 men coming to Jesus, the great Physician, prevented 
 the greater part of the sick natives from accepting 
 the kind proposal. Some of them were afraid to 
 come ; and others refused to take medicine because 
 it w r as not sweet, or to remain more than three or 
 four days, which was not long enough to effect a cure. 
 
 Yet a hospital seemed very necessary, for it was 
 
50 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 sad to see how foolishly the natives treated sick peo- 
 ple, as you will perceive from this little anecdote. 
 
 The missionaries employed native boys as their 
 servants. One of them, while gathering some bread- 
 fruit, fell from the tree, and broke his arm. Mr. 
 Clode set it ; but five days afterwards, the boy, 
 through his own carelessness, broke it again. Mr. 
 Clode tried to set it again, but could not prevent the 
 boy feeling much agony. The father of the child 
 then insisted on taking him home, saying, " I shall 
 send for a native doctor, and pray to our god, and the 
 boy will soon be well." 
 
 The next day Mr. Puckey and Mr. Smith went to 
 tee the child, and were told that he had died the 
 mght before. They found that the father had put 
 his child in cold running water, while burning with 
 fever, and that he had immediately expired. The 
 father lamented with tears that he had taken him 
 home. By the side of the child lay a piece of cloth 
 steeped in the father's blood, which had been made 
 to flow in torrents by a shark's tooth, and the cloth 
 now was spread out as a proof of the father's grief. 
 
 The missionaries gazed upon the lifeless form of 
 the child, as it lay decked with flowers, while the 
 foolish natives crowded around them, admiring their 
 clothes. The missionaries took this opportunity to 
 remind them that death would one day overtake 
 them, and to warn them that their souls must then 
 
THE CHILD'S FUNERAL. 51 
 
 appear before the only true God, who had prepared 
 a place of happiness for the righteous, and of misery 
 for the wicked. 
 
 While they were speaking, the natives ceased to 
 laugh, and appeared for a moment struck by whal 
 had been uttered. 
 
 Mr. Puckey made a coffin for the child, and laid 
 him hi it the next day. Four little boys carried it to 
 the grave, and several of the missionaries followed it 
 Crowds of natives attended, who were filled with 
 wonder at the coffin, having never seen one before, 
 and exclaimed, " It would make a fine chest to put 
 clothes in." 
 
 The father, according to the custom, made a long 
 speech over the child's grave, describing how useful 
 his son would have been had he lived, though it is 
 to be feared he might more truly have said, how 
 wicked. 
 
 The relations would have cut themselves again on 
 the head, with sharks' teeth, but they were prevailed 
 upon by the missionaries to refrain. 
 
 At length the missionaries determined to try no 
 longer to defend themselves from the natives ; for 
 though they were so few in number that they could 
 easily be overcome, they felt that God could preserve 
 them from every danger. As they resolved to be 
 satisfied with food and raiment, they delivered up the 
 blacksmith's shop and the store-room, with all they 
 
52 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 contained, to Pomare, and even offered to give him 
 their own private property, but he generously refused 
 to accept it. It was now Pomare's interest to pre- 
 vent the natives robbing the house, and his servants 
 were appointed to guard it by night. In what man- 
 ner they guarded it you will soon hear. The mis- 
 sionaries hoped that, having now given up all their 
 worldly cares, they should 'be able to serve the Loid 
 more earnestly, and to watch more diligently for the 
 souls of the poor heathen. 
 
 Both Pomare and Idia were delighted in being 
 permitted to take what they pleased from the breth- 
 ren. Both night and day they walked from room to 
 room, looking on every thing with a covetous eye, 
 and carrying away a great quantity. 
 
 The natives, like greedy birds, hovered about the 
 outside of the house, and invented cunning plans of 
 stealing. One of these was to hook away things 
 with a very long stick, which they thrust between 
 the posts that formed the walls of part of the house ; 
 so that the missionaries placed any thing that they 
 were very much afraid of losing, under the care of 
 some chief. 
 
 One night Mr. Harris was awakened by the noise 
 of thieves ransacking a box in his room ; the men 
 ran off the instant he saw them, taking with them 
 many books and clothes. 
 
 Another night Mr. Eyre woke, and saw, by the 
 
CONDUCT OF IDIA. 53 
 
 light he always kept burning in his room, two of the 
 natives who were appointed to be watchmen by Po- 
 mare, getting over a partition placed before his door 
 He asked them what they wanted, when one of them 
 cunningly replied, " I thought I heard some thieves 
 within, and was coming to look for them." 
 
 One day Mr. Broomhall missed two cases out of 
 his room, one containing all things necessary for cup 
 ping, and the other for cutting off limbs. He was 
 surprised by Idia bringing back the cases next morn- 
 ing, with nothing missing but two little saws. In a 
 little time afterwards she restored these also. The 
 missionaries wondered how she had got possession of 
 the things ; at the same time, they thought it w^as 
 honest in her to give them back. A few months 
 afterwards they discovered that she encouraged her 
 servants to steal things for her, for they found she 
 had an axe in her possession that had been missed 
 . two months before. 
 
 She visited the missionaries very often, and chose 
 Mrs. Eyre for her particular friend, and often drank 
 tea with her, and paid her much attention, and 
 promised that no one should hurt her. Yet she not 
 only continued to steal, but this summer she killed 
 her own infant as soon as it was born. She looked 
 ashamed when she next came to see the missionaries, 
 knowing that they abhorred her conduct. She soon, 
 however, recovered her confidence, and presented 
 
54 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Eyre with two hogs and a quantity of 
 fruit. They received her well, and accepted the 
 present ; for all the brethren had agreed that it was 
 useless to be angry with the heathen for their crimes. 
 St. Paul says, " What have I to do to judge them 
 that are without!" that is, the heathen. "Them 
 that are without, God judgeth." 1 Cor. 5 : 12, 13. 
 
 Otu was now their frequent visitor, as well as 
 Tetua, the young queen. They used often to call to 
 see the brethren, and were always mounted upon 
 men's shoulders. The missionaries were surprised 
 at the ease and grace with which they sat upon their 
 bearers, and also at the strength of the men, who 
 generally carried the royal pair at a trotting pace. 
 Otu's habits of begging were the same as ever, and 
 these annoyed the missionaries very much, as they 
 had now little remaining that they could well spare. 
 
 The natives continued to be very troublesome, 
 particularly at the time when the brethren dined 
 together. Multitudes flocked to see them eat, and 
 would almost snatch the meat out of their mouths. 
 All the missionaries' servants also chose to dine with 
 them, .and consumed more food than their masters. 
 If you inquire why the brethren kept so many ser- 
 vants, you must know that the servants chose to 
 come without leave. They insisted on helping the 
 brethren to cook the dinner, and then remained to 
 dine without being invited, and generally found many 
 
MANE-MANE KILLED. 55 
 
 private opportunities of stealing. At length the 
 missionaries came to a determination no longer to 
 have one dinner, but to dine two or three together 
 in their own rooms, and to cook their food privately, 
 with the assistance of one boy to each mess, if they 
 possibly could keep away the rest of the people. 
 
 During this year there was a quarrel between 
 Pomare and Otu ; and Mane-mane having stirred up 
 a rebellion, Pomare ordered him to be killed. Idia 
 arranged the plan of the murder. On the morning 
 of the day appointed, she and one of her men-ser- 
 vants breakfasted with Mr. and Mrs. Eyre, and they 
 both appeared as cheerful as usual. They quitted 
 the house after breakfast. It was then that the 
 treacherous plan was executed. The man-servant 
 followed old Mane-mane down a hill, as he was on 
 his way to Pare, overtook him, and after talking with 
 him a short time, smote him on the head with a 
 stone. Thus perished the wicked old priest, who had 
 long deceived the people with the idea that he had 
 power to curse and bless whom he would, but who 
 could not shield his own hoary head from the curse 
 of the living God. 
 
56 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER VI, 
 
 CONTINUED UNBELIEF OF THE NATIVES. 
 
 THE more the missionaries saw of Otu, the more 
 wickedness they discovered in him. He felt no grat- 
 itude for all the favors they had shown him. I will 
 give you some instances of his ingratitude in several 
 trifling circumstances. 
 
 .During the late war he sent his servants to carry 
 off a sow and five young pigs belonging to Mr. Bick 
 nell, who made no resistance to the demand. The 
 missionaries complained of this conduct to Idia, and 
 were pleased to see the pigs running near their house 
 next day, though Idia had said nothing to them on 
 the subject. 
 
 One day the king came to Mr. Broomhall's apart- 
 ment, and asked to see a large Bible with pictures 
 that he had heard of. While he was looking at it, 
 he asked Mr. Broomhall to show him another book ; 
 and while it was being brought, he slyly cut out of 
 the Bible a picture of Adam and Eve in paradise, 
 and then returned the Bible, without mentioning 
 what he had done. 
 
 Notwithstanding this conduct, the missionaries 
 continued to behave generously to Otu. 
 
 On Friday, 1st, a ship touched at Tahiti. "While 
 the ship was at anchor, Otu came one day to Mr. 
 
CHARACTER OF THE KING. 57 
 
 Broomhall, and slipping three pearls into his hand, 
 desired him to keep them for himself, and to procure 
 a pistol for him from the ship. When the brethren 
 heard of this circumstance, they wrote to the captain 
 to ask, as a favor, to purchase a gun for Otu, as they 
 feared he would be offended if he did not obtain one. 
 At the same time they resolved, if they succeeded 
 in procuring the gun, to return the pearls to Otu, to 
 show him that they did not act from motives of 
 interest. 
 
 The, captain very kindly presented the gun to the 
 brethren, who gave it to Otu, and returned the pearls 
 to him. They were pleased to see Otu present it to 
 his mother Idia, and to hear him speak more gra- 
 ciously to her than usual ; but they observed no dif- 
 ference in his general conduct afterwards. 
 
 It was awful to see how completely Otu, though a 
 king, was the slave of his own violent passions. 
 
 One day when he had drunk a great -deal of ava, 
 an intoxicating drink used by the natives, and was 
 asleep in his dwelling, he heard a man hallooing 
 outside*. He immediately desired his servants to kill 
 him. To what a pitch of wickedness will men get, 
 who have nothing to restrain their passions. How 
 many feel such anger as Otu did, who dare not give 
 the same barbarous order. The young man who had 
 hallooed, ran to Mr. Broomhall for protection. Otu, 
 hearing where the man had taken refuge, thought it 
 
58 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 would be a good opportunity to get some tiling out of 
 Mr. Broomhall, and sent a message requesting to 
 have three yards of printed cloth, instead of the two 
 yards of white cloth that had been promised him the 
 clay before. While Mr. Broomhall was getting them, 
 Otu himself appeared before the door and demanded 
 the gift. Mr.. Broomhall gave him the cloth, and 
 entreated him to spare the young man's life; Otu 
 consented, but in a very sullen manner. 
 
 This unamiable tyrant was always surrounded by 
 a train of flatterers, who slyly praised him to each 
 other, loud enough for him to hear. The titles be- 
 stowed on the king, and on all he had, were most 
 absurd. His house was called the clouds of heaven, 
 his large canoe the rainboiv, his manner of riding 
 was called flying, the torch that was carried before 
 him lightning, and a drum that was often beat for 
 his amusement, thunder. Thus, while in his con- 
 duct he resembled a beast and a devil, he fancied 
 himself a god. 
 
 The missionaries were in much heaviness on ac- 
 count of the continued unbelief of the people. When 
 they spoke to them of the Lord Jesus coining down 
 from heaven, the natives sometimes replied, "If this 
 were true, would not Captain Cook, and others who 
 came here before the Duff, have told us of it ?" The 
 missionaries tried to show them that though those 
 raptains had known the name of Christ, yet they had 
 
A CHAPEL COMMENCED. 59 
 
 not obeyed his commands. It was dreadful to hear 
 the blasphemous words that the people sometimes 
 uttered against the Saviour, and how they jested about 
 holy things ; so that sometimes the missionaries felt 
 inclined to speak of Christ no more in the presence 
 of the heathen ; yet they could not be silent, for they 
 knew that God was able to turn the hearts of these 
 ignorant people, and teach their lips to praise him. 
 
 Nothing offended the natives more than to speak 
 against their wicked customs. Even Idia, who was 
 so much at the brethren's house, murdered another 
 infant this summer. This was the third she had de- 
 stroyed since the arrival of the missionaries. The 
 missionaries hoped that when they were able to speak 
 the language well, the people would be more ready 
 to listen to them ; but they found it very difficult to 
 learn it, because they had no books to help them, and 
 the people spoke so quickly they could scarcely catch 
 their words. Yet they persevered, and already began 
 to attempt to translate a few verses in different parts 
 of the Bible, and they showed these translations to 
 each other, at their weekly meetings. 
 
 In February, 1800, the brethren first determined 
 to build a chapel, where the natives might be invited 
 to assemble to hear them preach, which they hoped 
 Boon to be able to do. Hitherto they had only met 
 together in a room in their own house, 
 
 It was on March 5, that the first wooden posts or 
 
60 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 pillars of the chapel were reared to form the walls. 
 The time was remarkable, because it was three years, 
 all but one day, since the missionaries' first arrival 
 in Tahiti. The brethren were grieved to hear the 
 natives who were assisting them, jeering at Christ as 
 they worked, and to see them scoffingly marking each 
 pillar in their manner, with his name. They ear- 
 nestly hoped that those pillars would hereafter be wit- 
 nesses to the conversion of these miserable heathen. 
 Pomare soon afterwards gave a great proof of his 
 ignorance by sending the brethren a raw fish, with 
 a request that it might be hung up in the chapel, as 
 an offering to Jesus Christ. One of the brethren went 
 to him to return the fish, and to tell him, that it was 
 not the custom of their God to receive sacrifices of 
 food from any one ; but that he gave food to all, and 
 that all should thank him for his gifts. Pomare seem- 
 ed displeased with this answer, but tried to appear 
 indifferent, and said, "Very well." 
 
TEOHU VISITS MATAVAI. 61 
 
 CHAPTER VII, 
 
 A PLEASANT SURPRISE. 
 
 THE island continued in a state of disquietude, 
 There was no open war, but it seemed every day 
 ready to break out. Pomare was exceedingly en- 
 raged against the people of Atehuru, because they 
 had stolen the image of Oro, the god of war, from 
 the temple at Pare, and had hid it in their own part 
 of the country. They had done this, in the hope of 
 conquering by Oro's power, when the war should be- 
 gin ; for they fully believed that the god Oro some- 
 times entered into this log of wood. Pomare did not 
 immediately show his anger, for he hoped that the 
 idol would be given back to him soon. He even 
 thought it necessary to behave with great respect to 
 some whom he knew to be his enemies. For in- 
 stance, when Teohu, a rebellious chief, who took part 
 with the Atehurans, visited Matavai in April, he was 
 received with great honor by Pomare. Teohu ar- 
 rived with his train of servants in a number of canoes, 
 accompanied by two human sacrifices for Otu. As 
 the king was absent, a man adorned with a bunch of 
 red feathers represented him, and was treated with 
 the same respect as the king, every one uncovering 
 his shoulders in his presence. Pomare caused a shed 
 to be built for Teohu, while he staid at Matavai, and 
 
62 . THE NFGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 he made him presents of cloth, and even gave him a 
 musket. Teohu also made presents to Pomare. Yet, 
 though their words were smoother than butter, war 
 was in their hearts. Pomare, however, did not wish 
 to begin the war till a boat should return, that he had 
 sent to some neighboring islands to fetch pearls, and 
 also human sacrifices. 
 
 In the end of June, the war was on the point of 
 beginning, when an event of God's providence pre- 
 vented it. It was the arrival of a ship. This ship 
 was not a vessel used for trading, or catching whales, 
 as all other vessels had been, that had arrived since 
 the Duff. It was a man-of-war a ship that sailed 
 about the seas to attack the enemies of the king of 
 England. 
 
 This ship was called the Porpoise. It had been 
 sent for the purpose of buying hogs, to make into 
 salt pork, for the inhabitants of Port Jackson. 
 
 The captain brought letters from the governor of 
 Port Jackson for the brethren, and for Pomare, as 
 well as presents, among which was a handsome scarlet 
 dress for Pomare. Though Pomare was delighted to 
 receive presents, he was afraid lest Otu should be 
 affronted, if he also did not receive presents from the 
 governor, and therefore he asked the captain to give 
 the dress to Otu. The captain consented, but desired 
 his men to make another dress for Pomare. 
 
 The Porpoise brought very delightful news to the 
 
ARRIVAL OF MISSIONARIES. 63 
 
 brethren It was, that a ship would shortly arrive, 
 containing some missionaries, who would remain at 
 Tahiti. 
 
 While the Porpoise was still at anchor, the wel- 
 come ship appeared. It was called " The Royal 
 Admiral," and contained eight missionaries. Captain 
 Wilson's nephew, William, was the commander of 
 the ship, and was therefore called Captain Wilson. 
 
 The next day, some of the newly-arrived brethren 
 dined and drank tea with the brethren on shore, and 
 returned to the ship at night. Perhaps none of these 
 brethren had ever seen each other before ; yet how 
 joyful their first meeting must have been ! Those 
 newly arrived, found kind friends ready to assist 
 them in learning the language, and to prepare them 
 for the trials they must endure ; while those who had 
 been long settled in Tahiti, must have felt greater 
 joy than can be described, at the sight of fellow-la- 
 borers, and in hearing of their beloved friends in 
 England. Three days after the arrival of the new 
 missionaries, a public meeting was held in the open 
 air, near the brethren's houses. All the brethren 
 were there, and explained to Pomare, Idia, and Otu, 
 the reason of more missionaries coming to the island , 
 they then asked Pomare whether he had any objec- 
 tion to their remaining in Tahiti. Pomare answered, 
 "No, I am pleased at their coming ; more may come 
 if they will, and stay till they are tired." 
 
64 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Pomare then asked all the brethren whether they 
 would help him in his wars. They replied, that they 
 were men of peace, and had nothing to do with war. 
 
 Captain "Wilson next reminded Pomare of his hav- 
 ing given the district of Matavai to the brethren, and 
 asked him whether it was still theirs. He said that 
 it was, and inquired whether the brethren wished 
 the natives to be sent out of it. They replied, "No, 
 we do not want to have the land, but only to be al- 
 lowed to dwell on it." 
 
 I wish I could inform you of the chief things that 
 happened immediately after the arrival of the eight 
 missionaries, but the accounts that were written by 
 the brethren were lost at sea. I know, however, 
 that the chapel was soon finished, and I believe 
 that some of the brethren began to preach in it to 
 the natives. 
 
 Though war had not yet begun, it seemed more 
 likely than ever that it would break out. A great 
 meeting was soon to be held in Atehuru, and then it 
 was expected that either peace would be made or 
 war declared. The people of Atehuru had still got 
 possession of the god Oro, whom they had stolen, 
 and Pomare was much afraid of them. 
 
 Such was the state of things at the end of Febru- 
 ary, when the brethren agreed that Mr. Nott should 
 go round Tahiti, to preach to all the inhabitants the 
 Gospel of peace. Mr. Elder, who had recently ar 
 
FIRST PREACHING TOUR. 65 
 
 rived, was appointed to accompany Mr. Nott. Of 
 course, he knew very little of the language, and 
 therefore could not preach. 
 
 This preaching tour was an arduous undertaking. 
 Wherever the brethren saw a few dwellings they 
 stopped, and went from house to house, entreating 
 the people to come at an appointed time to a par- 
 ticular spot. It was often difficult to persuade them 
 to engage to come, and, after all, the people often 
 broke their promise, and did not come. Sometimes 
 Mr. Nott preached three or four times in the day, 
 and often he had above a hundred people to hear 
 him. Sometimes they encouraged him by the at- 
 tention they paid, for they were astonished by the 
 new things he told them. They often answered the 
 questions he asked in his sermon. "When he said, 
 " What is the true atonement for sin ?" a man once 
 replied, "Hogs and pearls." Another time when he 
 said that the people had no desire to know the true 
 God, one man interrupted him, by replying, " Do not 
 say we have no desire. But perhaps we shall not 
 understand about God, through the badness of our 
 hearts." One chief said that he felt a desire to pray 
 to the true God, and asked whether his old gods 
 would not kill him if he did. 
 
 The journey round the island was one hundred 
 miles. The brethren went only a few miles each 
 day, and lodged in the houses of the natives, who 
 
 Night of Toil. & 
 
66 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 freely received them, for the brethren had nothing to 
 give them. The people almost all lived by the sea- 
 coast ; but there were some narrow valleys that ran 
 up among the mountains, and Mr. Nott often went 
 up these beautiful valleys to preach. 
 
 He took with him on his journey several natives, 
 who had the advantage of hearing him preach manjr 
 times during their five weeks' tour. The last day of 
 their journey, Mr. Nott was delighted to hear them 
 giving a clear account of the Gospel to some stran- 
 gers whom they met. Just before he reached home, 
 he assembled them and examined them, and remind- 
 ed them what a great advantage they had enjoyed, 
 in hearing the truth so often, while others had only 
 heard it once, and warned them not to neglect such 
 a great salvation. One boy said, in reply, " If the 
 Duff had been the first ship that had come to the 
 island, we should have thrown away the feather 
 gods long ago." 
 
 During the last part of the journey, Mr. Nott passed 
 thrc 'igh the district of Atehuru just at the time 
 when J o e great meeting took place, at which it was 
 expected either war would be declared or peace 
 established. 
 
 Pomare and Otu desired that Oro should be given 
 up ; but as the Atehurans refused to consent, Otu 
 rose up in anger, seized hold of Oro, ran with him 
 towards the sea, and placed him in one of the canoes. 
 
EFFECTS OF THE WAR. G7 
 
 This was the beginning of the war, which lasted 
 three months. Pomare and Otu were finally victo- 
 rious, though they did not recover their god. The 
 new chapel which the missionaries had built was 
 torn down, and the beautiful groves of breadfruit 
 and cocoa-nut trees were cut down to make a fence 
 around their house. The brethren felt exceeding 
 gratitude to their heavenly Father when this sad 
 war was over ; still, when they looked at their gar- 
 dens now trodden down, at the place where their 
 groves had stood, and at the ruins of their chapel, 
 they felt that they had endured a heavy affliction. 
 But now the storm had blown over ; and though it 
 had injured their property, it had not hurt one hair 
 of their heads. 
 
68 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 HOW THE NATIVES BEHAVED WHEN THE MISSIONARIES PREACHED. 
 
 As the war appeared to be over for the present, the 
 missionaries set about repairing their fences, digging 
 and sowing their gardens, and building another 
 chapel. 
 
 They took every opportunity of preaching the 
 Gospel to the natives. On Sundays several of the 
 brethren used to go about the neighborhood, and en- 
 deavor to collect people to hear. But the difficulties 
 were very great. They found them either busy in 
 beating cloth, or preparing food, or else feasting, or 
 drinking ava, or lying down stupefied from the effects 
 of the ava. Also, the people who lived at Matavai 
 were more indifferent to the preaching than any 
 others, because they had become tired of hearing 
 often the same things. 
 
 The missionaries, however, continued their labors, 
 knowing that God, when he pleased, could pour down 
 his Spirit from on high. 
 
 They continually made journeys, two and two, 
 round the island, and were generally absent about a 
 month. Sometimes they even crossed the sea, and 
 made a tour round Eimeo. 
 
 They suffered many hardships in these journeys. 
 Since the war the houses of the inhabitants were 
 
SUFFERINGS OF THE PREACHERS. 69 
 
 more wretched than before ; for the old houses had 
 been burnt, and miserable sheds had been built in 
 haste. These were generally in a most dirty state, 
 and full of insects ; so that the poor brethren passed 
 many restless nights after their days of toil. 
 
 They had no umbrellas to defend them from the 
 rain, and in the houses there were no fires at which 
 to dry their clothes. They often had no shoes to 
 their feet, and they were sometimes obliged to place 
 leaves on the burning sands, to defend them from 
 the heat, at each step they took. On some occasions 
 they were distressed for want of food ; for the people 
 sometimes refused to receive them into their houses. 
 The brethren soon found it necessary to make fish- 
 hooks and combs, and to take them with them on 
 their journey, as payment for their food and lodging. 
 They could truly say, like the apostles, " Even unto 
 this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are 
 buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place, and 
 labor, working with our own hands." 
 
 The natives little knew what great sufferings the 
 brethren endured for their sakes : they foolishly 
 thought that the missionaries had come to live at 
 Tahiti to get their sweet food, for they had heard 
 that no such fruit as theirs grew in England. They 
 often behaved very ill while the missionaries were 
 preaching to them, and cried out "lies," and "non- 
 sense," during the sermon. At other times they 
 
70 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 tried to make each other laugh, by repeating sen- 
 tences after the brethren, or by speaking the name 
 of Christ in a ridiculous manner, or by playing antics 
 and making faces. Many of the natives used to lie 
 down and sleep as soon as the sermon began, while 
 others were so trifling as to make remarks upon the 
 missionaries' clothes, or upon their appearance. Thus 
 Satan filled their hearts with folly, lest they should 
 believe and be saved. 
 
 Sometimes the natives behaved even worse than 
 we have already related ; for they were enraged with 
 the missionaries on account of the number of diseases 
 in the island, and declared they had all been sent by 
 the God of England. They said that he must be a 
 very cruel god, and that Oro was too good to send 
 such diseases. There was one disease now common 
 in the island, called the broken back. It was a 
 weakness in the backbone, which caused it to bend 
 outwards or inwards. Often the person died before 
 the bone was bent ; and it was very remarkable, that 
 when the bone was bent much the person began to 
 recover, though he remained a cripple all his life. 
 Once the natives brought a great many of these poor 
 objects, and laid them before the missionaries while 
 they were preaching, to show them what harm their 
 God had done. Sometimes, when the missionaries 
 entreated the natives to come and hear them, they 
 eaid to each other in a mocking tone, " Come, let us 
 
THEIR GROSS DARKNESS. 71 
 
 go, that we may be cured of all our diseases to-day.'* 
 They often said to the missionaries, " You talk to us 
 of salvation, and we are dying. We want no other 
 salvation than to be cured of our diseases, and to 
 live here always, and to eat and talk." 
 
 When the missionaries told them that their bodies 
 would be raised after death, they would not believe 
 them ; they said it was impossible, for that dead 
 bodies turned to dust, and that no dead person had 
 yet been raised. In vain the brethren assured them 
 that one had risen from the dead ; they laughed the 
 whole history to scorn, saying, " Has Pomare be- 
 lieved, or any of the chiefs ?" 
 
 It was too true that the chiefs were the greatest 
 enemies of Christ, and discouraged the natives from 
 attending to the Gospel. Once when a missionary 
 was preaching about Christ having atoned fcr our 
 sins, a man cried out to the rest, as if he liked what 
 he had heard, "Do you hear that?" Immediately 
 a chief who was present threw something at the 
 man. 
 
 Sometimes persons asked questions seriously during 
 the sermons, and acknowledged that they were fools, 
 and knew nothing ; but these hopeful signs were of 
 short continuance-. Once a man said to the breth- 
 ren, " You offer no sacrifices to your God, but say 
 that Jesus was sacrificed. Is it because Jesus was 
 sacrificed, that you offer nothing ?" The missionaries 
 
72 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 replied, that was the reason. The man seemed 
 pleased, and to think the way of salvation very 
 easy. Bat, alas, though he could understand it a 
 little, he could not believe it. The missionaries felt 
 the truth of God's declaration, " Darkness hath cov- 
 ered the earth, and gross darkness the people;" hut 
 they were comforted with the promise, " My sheep 
 shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and 
 one Shepherd." 
 
 It was wonderful to see what trust these people 
 placed in their dumb idols. One day some natives 
 caught seven large fish, and they thought that they 
 had caught so many because there were some red 
 feathers on their canoes. They often said the Eng- 
 lish were very unkind not to send them more red 
 feathers, that they might please their gods. They 
 could scarcely be made to understand what the soul 
 was : they fancied their souls lived in the land of 
 darkness, and that they only came to them sometimes 
 at night when they dreamed. All these foolish no- 
 tions were taught to the people by their priests, 
 and also by others who pretended to be inspired by 
 the gods. Even. women, who were so much de- 
 spised in Tahiti, sometimes professed to have the 
 spirit of the gods in them. I will give you an in- 
 stance of the manner in which they tried to impose 
 on the people. 
 
 On one occasion, the brethren saw a girl coming 
 
ANOTHER SACRIFICE. 73 
 
 towards them leading a woman, whose head wa? 
 muffled up. These persons pretended to have the 
 spirit of the gods in them. When they saw the 
 brethren they appeared confused, fell upon their 
 knees, and mumbled some words. Their reason for 
 doing so was, that they might appear to put the 
 spirit of the god from them. They then rose, and 
 coming towards the missionaries, quietly spoke to 
 them by their names. The brethren seeing their 
 hypocrisy, rebuked them sharply, and entreated the 
 people standing by not to be deceived by such tricks. 
 The people laughed, and some said they knew the 
 whole was a pretence ; but others still believed in 
 it, being blinded by Satan. 
 
 Thus these people, who were so unbelieving to- 
 wards God, were willing to be deceived by the most 
 foolish impostors. It is often found, even in Chris- 
 tian countries, that those who will not believe the 
 word of God, will place their trust in fortune-tellers, 
 dreams, and signs of good and ill luck. It is easy 
 to discover the cause of this difference it is the 
 love of sin : God's word forbids all evil, and there- 
 fore it is despised and rejected. 
 
 Accustomed as the missionaries were to the wicked 
 ways of the people, they were filled with dismay at 
 the deed which I shall now relate. 
 
 Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Scott, while travelling in 
 Tahiti, came to the house of a chief who had often 
 
74 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 been desired to find a sacrifice, and who had just re- 
 ceived a message from Pomare, threatening him with 
 banishment if he did not kill a man immediately. 
 
 The chief was sitting in his ' house, surrounded by 
 his friends and attendants, and was secretly intending 
 to kill one of them, when the brethren entered. 
 Knowing how they hated such deeds, the chief durst 
 not do it in their presence. Soon the brethren lay 
 down to rest. The chief then invited his compan- 
 ions to accompany him to the sea-shore. The man 
 whom the chief intended to kill, was one of his rela 
 tions, who had come to visit him. This man, with 
 several others, consented to go to the beach. When 
 arrived there, the chief and his servants killed him 
 with stones, and put his body in a long basket of 
 cocoa-nut leaves, ready to be sent to Pomare. The 
 chief then returned to the house, as calm and uncon- 
 cerned as if he had only killed a hog. The two 
 brethren knew nothing of the dreadful deed till 
 after they had left the house. Who can express the 
 horror they then felt ? In such a country it might 
 well be said, as it once was said in Israel, " Take ye 
 heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in 
 any brother. Their tongue is as an arrow shot out ; 
 it speaketh deceit : one speaketh peaceably to his 
 neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his 
 wait : shall I not visit them for these things ? saith 
 the Lord." Jer. 9 : 4, 8, 9. 
 
DEATH OF OTEU. 75 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE DEATHS OF THREE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. 
 
 HAVE you forgotten Oteu, the king's grandfather ? 
 This old man had heen introduced five years hefore 
 to Captain Wilson, when he brought the first mis- 
 sionaries in the Duff! The missionaries had some- 
 times tried to lead the old man to think of his soul 
 and of the true God, but they had found him only 
 inclined to speak of earthly things. He often inter- 
 rupted them by saying, " When will another ship 
 come? Have you any ava?" He was quite dis- 
 figured by the ava he had drunk : his long silver 
 beard, and mild, handsome countenance, made him 
 look very venerable, but the redness of his eyes, and 
 the white scurf upon his skin, showed that he was 
 a drunkard. 
 
 About four months after the war in Atehuru, Oteu 
 died of old age. The people thought that he was a 
 favorite of the gods, because he had lived above 
 eighty years, and had died a natural death. He ex- 
 pired in a house very near the brethren. Owo, his 
 daughter, asked them to make him a coffin. The 
 body was embalmed and placed in the coffin, in a 
 shed at Pare, opposite the king's house. 
 
 The next year Otu's younger brother, Te-are, ap- 
 peared to be in a decline. He believed that his god 
 
76 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 was angry with him, and therefore sent a human 
 sacrifice to his temple to quiet his wrath. But he 
 continued to grow worse, and was tenderly nursed 
 by his mother Idia. 
 
 As Te-are was living at Pare, Mr. Elder went to 
 see him sometimes, and gave him wine and .medi- 
 cines. He paid him a visit the day before he died. 
 He found him burning with fever, and the servants 
 refreshing him by throwing cold water over him ; 
 yet his body felt quite cold to the touch. Soon after- 
 wards the prince grew faint, and as he thought he 
 was dying, he took leave of his mother Idia, while 
 the attendants stood by bathed in tears. Pomare 
 was sent for immediately. He did not appear at all 
 afflicted at the state of his son, because he con- 
 sidered that, as all men must die, it was useless to 
 grieve about death. However, he offered up to his 
 gods, in the room where Te-are was lying, two hogs, 
 a plant ain-tree, and some red feathers, hoping by 
 this means to make his son better. Mr. Elder spoke 
 to the poor youth of the Saviour of the soul, "but Idia 
 seemed to dislike his doing so, as she thought that 
 all the prayers to the idols would be vain if Christ's 
 name were mentioned. Though Te-are knew he 
 was dying, he appeared quite unconcerned about 
 eternity. The next day Mr. Elder took some wine 
 to the young prince. Te-are received the wine ea- 
 gerly, though only able to swallow a table-spoonful. 
 
POMARE'S ILLNESS 77 
 
 He said that his throat was decayed, and that there- 
 fore he could not swallow. Soon afterwards he 
 ceased to breathe. Thus died Te-are, at the age 01 
 eighteen, in June, 1803. 
 
 The missionaries were grieved to see the natives 
 one after another dropping into the grave, without 
 having believed in the Saviour who had been preached 
 to them. 
 
 Te-are's body was embalmed, and placed in a shed 
 near his grandfather's corpse. It was the custom, at 
 the death of princes, to forbid fires to be lighted in 
 the district in which the event happened. All the 
 people of Pare were obliged, during the week after 
 Te-are's death, to go to some distance to cook their 
 food. 
 
 Pomare, who had seen his son expire with so much 
 indifference, knew not how nearly his own days were 
 numbered. 
 
 He had had a severe attack in the autumn before 
 his son's death, and had been visited by Mr. Elder 
 and Mr. Eyre, who had told him that the true God 
 was angry -with him for killing men for sacrifice. He 
 had heard this without feeling, but when they had 
 assured him, that they would pray for his recovery, 
 when they prayed together at home, his heart had 
 appeared touched by their kindness. Pomare soon 
 recovered from this illness. 
 
 A month after Te-are's death, an event occurred, 
 
78 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 which filled Pomare with delight. The rebellious 
 Atehurans had formed a plot to murder Pomare and 
 Idia. For this purpose they killed a man, as a sac- 
 rifice, and sent for Pomare to come to Atehuru, to 
 offer it to the gods. They hoped that he would come, 
 accompanied by only a few servants, and they in- 
 tended to lie in wait, and murder both him and Idia. 
 Otu heard of this plot, and informed his father of it, 
 who accordingly went to Atehuru by water, guarded 
 by a large fleet of canoes. When he arrived there, 
 he found the Atehurans more ready than before to 
 submit to his authority, and they even delivered up 
 the god Oro, that log of wood that had caused so 
 much blood to flow. 
 
 Thus peace was established in the island, on Au- 
 gust 1st, 1803. But Pomare did not live to enjoy 
 the submission of the people, or the possession of his 
 god ; for, only one month afterwards, he was cut off 
 by a stroke from the Almighty. This was the man- 
 ner of his death. 
 
 A ship, called the Dart, was at anchor near Ta- 
 hiti. One morning, Pomare set out in a canoe with 
 two men, to go to the ship. He held a paddle in 
 his hand, and had almost reached the vessel, when 
 he suddenly felt a pain in his back ; he cried out, and 
 put his hand to the place where he felt the pain, 
 dropped the paddle from the other hand, and fell on 
 his fa'ce, while his outstretched arms fell over the 
 
DEATH OF POMARE. 79 
 
 sides of the canoe. His two attendants immediately 
 rowed his body to the shore of Pare. As soon as the 
 brethren heard of the event, they hastened to the 
 spot ; < Mr. Elder felt his pulse, and thought it still 
 faintly beat. He did not, however, dare to bleed 
 Pornare, as the natives would have accused him of 
 intending to do harm to their chief. The dead body 
 was soon afterwards embalmed, and placed near the 
 corpses of Pomare's father, and youngest son. They 
 were all within sight of the king's house ; so that 
 Otu, as he sat within his palace, could behold the 
 bodies of his brother, father, and grandfather. 
 
 The natives did not appear either shocked or 
 grieved by Pomare's sudden death ; for their hearts 
 were so much hardened by continual cruelties, that 
 they seldom felt pity, or grief for others. 
 
 Otu, who was now at Atehuru, did not come to 
 see his father's dead body, but desired that it might 
 be sent to him. Idia, however, asked two of the 
 brethren to entreat the king to allow it to remain at 
 Pare. They went accordingly to the king, and ob- 
 tained their request, but found Otu quite unconcerned 
 about his father's death ; yet he was so much terri- 
 fied at night, by fears lest his father's spirit should 
 appear to him, that he caused one of his servants to 
 sleep near him. 
 
 Otu had now more power than during his father's 
 lifetime. The missionaries were afraid lest the peo- 
 
80 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 pie should rise up against him, for he was more op- 
 pressive, and was more hated, than his father had 
 been. However, through the mercy of God, the peo- 
 ple made no resistance to Otu. 
 
 From this time, Otu took the name of his father, 
 and styled himself his majesty Pomare. The mean- 
 ing of the word Pomare, is night-cough. The name 
 was chosen by Pomare in a curious manner. Once 
 when making a journey, he slept on a bleak part of 
 the mountains, and caught cold. His attendants, 
 observing his cough next day, called that night the 
 Pomare. The chief liked the sound of the word so 
 much, that he chose it for his name. 
 
 Henceforth we shall speak of Otu by the name of 
 Pomare. 
 
KING'S DEPARTURE TO EIMEO. gj 
 
 CHAPTER X, 
 
 THE FIRST TAHITIAN WHO LEARNED TO WRITE. 
 
 THOUGH Pomare II. was much less pleasing than 
 his father, yet he was not so much set against the 
 message the missionaries brought. For some time 
 past he had been a great deal with the brethren, 
 and had occasionally listened to their sermons. One 
 Sabbath he sent to desire Idia to attend the preach- 
 ing out of doors ; but when she came, she stood far 
 enough off not to hear, for she was a great enemy to 
 the Gospel. Although Pomare spent the greater part 
 of his time in eating, drinking, and romping with his 
 attendants, yet ever since the war, he had taken 
 pains to learn to read and write. When absent from 
 the missionaries, he had carried writing copies about 
 with him, and practised by himself, and now he was 
 able to write notes tolerably well. He remained, 
 indeed, as wicked as before, but he grew more and 
 more anxious to conceal his wickedness from the 
 missionaries. 
 
 The year after his father's death, Pomare left the 
 brethren, and went to the island of Eimeo, taking 
 with him his god Oro. The Atehurans were much 
 grieved to lose the idol from their country, but they 
 did not show their sorrow openly. The fame of Oro 
 had become greater than ever, since the death of the 
 
 NihtofTo . 
 
82 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 late Pomare ; for it was declared that Oro had killed 
 him by his power, to punish him for having once 
 placed a sacred cloth of Oro upon his son Otu. 
 
 The present King Pomare' s power was also con- 
 sidered exceedingly great. It was said that he could 
 kill men by his prayers, and the following story was 
 related as a proof of it. 
 
 Once while he was worshipping his idols, a man 
 disturbed him by beating a drum. He sent to desire 
 him to leave off, but the man continued to annoy 
 him. Pomare then said, " Let him alone," and that 
 same night the man expired. 
 
 But the king knew that, though the people feared 
 him, there were many who hated him ; and tie was 
 afraid of another war breaking out. 
 
 He wished to show the people in Tahiti, that he 
 desired peace. For this purpose, while he was at 
 Eimeo, he sacrificed a man, and sent various bits of 
 his body to different places in Tahiti. The top of a 
 finger was sent to Matavai, and pieces of the hair, 
 and of the feet and hands, to other places. 
 
 Still, he knew it was probable, that war would 
 soon be declared, and therefore he tried to prepare 
 himself for it, by collecting all the muskets he could 
 find. He induced some of the people in Eimeo to 
 exchange their muskets for gifts, but he forced away 
 those of others. The people of Tahiti heard that he 
 meant, when he returned, to take their muskets also, 
 
BURNING OF THE PLANTATION. 83 
 
 and they resolved to die sooner than to part from 
 them. Thus the king's violent behavior fanned the 
 spark of anger in his subjects' breasts, and made it 
 more probable that they would soon rebel. 
 
 When the missionaries heard of these disputes, they 
 saw that it was too likely they might one day behold 
 another war, which was the thing they most dreaded, 
 especially on account of the women and children in 
 the family. 
 
 In September, 1805, the brethren suffered a very 
 severe loss. They had enclosed a piece of ground 
 about a mile from their dwellings, and planted in it 
 six hundred cocoa-nut trees, orange-trees, and lemon- 
 trees. They had watched over these trees for two 
 years, when, in one night, the precious plantation 
 was almost all burnt. They suspected that some 
 envious persons had set fire to the long grass that 
 grew on the outside of the fence. 
 
 None of the natives took any pains to discover how 
 the trees had been destroyed, or appeared to feel sor- 
 row for the loss. The brethren met together to con- 
 sider whether they should inform the king of the 
 affair, but they agreed not to complain, for fear blood 
 might be shed on their account. 
 
 The brethren would have found it hard indeed to 
 continue to labor for the souls of these ungrateful 
 people, had they not remembered Him, who, when 
 we were enemies, delivered up his Son for our sins. 
 
84 THE NIGHT OF TOLL. 
 
 This thought enabled them to bear their injuries 
 meekly, and to continue unwearied in their work of 
 
 The king remained in Eimeo one year and a half. 
 In January, 1806, he returned to Tahiti. 
 
 The brethren went to Pare, where the king landed, 
 to meet him. The queen, who was with him, ap- 
 peared to be extremely ill. The king seemed pleased 
 to see the brethren, and told them that he should 
 come in a few days to Matavai, and should wish them 
 to build a small plastered house for him, close to their 
 own, in which he might write without being dis- 
 turbed. He also expressed a wish that some presents 
 might be made him. 
 
 Although the king continued obstinate in wicked- 
 ness, he appeared anxious to be more than ever with 
 the missionaries. One day he requested them to ask 
 his mother whether he might enter the new mission- 
 ary house, which was built after the arrival of the 
 new missionaries, as he was desirous to go into the 
 upper rooms, never having seen any rooms raised 
 above the ground floor. It appears that Idia had 
 power to set aside the Tahitian law, which made all 
 houses that kings entered belong to them, Idia gave 
 the desired permission, and the king gratified his 
 curiosity by walking through the upper rooms, but 
 he did not go into the lower rooms, or into the other 
 houses of the missionaries. 
 
THE KING'S STUDY. 85 
 
 In March, 1806, the brethren endured a loss, not 
 of property, but of one of their own selves. Mr. 
 Shelley set sail with his wife and child in a ship that 
 touched at the island. 
 
 Mr. Shelley's room, which was up stairs, was given 
 to Mr. Tessier. The missionaries were soon after- 
 wards surprised at receiving the following note from 
 the king. It was, of course, written in the Tahitian 
 language. This is the translation of it. 
 
 " FRIENDS Give me the room above the room 
 that belonged to Mr. Shelley give to me for a writ- 
 ing-place. Let the room below be for Tessier, and 
 that above for me. If all agreed to by you, make up 
 this my speech ; if agreed by you, write that I may 
 know your speech. 
 
 "POM ARE, KING." 
 
 The missionaries consulted together about what 
 answer they should send to this note. They did not 
 like to let Pomare have the room, for several reasons. 
 One was, that Mr. Tessier wanted it, and had come 
 into it the day before. Another was, that if the king 
 lived there, the brethren would be much disturbed : 
 people would often be coming to speak to the king 
 upon business, would eat messes of food in the house 
 and around it, and would make the place very untidy ; 
 would trample the garden under foot, and beg for the 
 fruit growing upon the trees, or even take it without 
 leave. The brethren, therefore, determined to pro- 
 
86 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 pose helping to build the king a small house near 
 them, as he had once expressed a wish for such a 
 house. Still, they were afraid that the king had set 
 his heart upon living with them in their large house. 
 They sent him a kind note to tell him that they would 
 have allowed him to have the room, had it not been 
 for the noise and litter that his people would make. 
 In a few days they were pleased at receiving the 
 following answer from the king. 
 
 " FRIENDS Thus my speech continueth, and this 
 is my desire. Do you stand to my wish, and turn 
 not away your hearing, but hear you my speech. 
 Give you Mr. Nott and Mr. Bicknell for workmen to 
 do my room towards the sea, in the new house ; for 
 there it will be made, if agreed well by you. Friends, 
 give also a saw, a plane, chisels, and other small 
 things for the work. Agree you well to it ? Is it 
 agreed ? Perhaps not. Write you your speech, that 
 I may know. This is all. The speech is ended. 
 
 " May it be well with you, friends. 
 
 "POM ARE, KING." 
 
 The brethren readily agreed to help the king to 
 build this little room, and sent the following answer. 
 
 " May you live, king ! 
 
 " The speech you have written we agree to. We 
 will give the saw, augers, gimlets, and nails, to work 
 your work. 
 
 "JOHN DAVIES." 
 
DEATH OF THE QUEEN. 87 
 
 The room was soon finished. The king spent many 
 hours in it writing. He never sat down to write, but 
 used to lie upon the floor, leaning on his chest. He 
 also learned to read English a little. But still he 
 continued to work iniquity. 
 
 This spring his queen Tetua had an infant. Po- 
 mare told the missionaries that it had died, and pre- 
 tended to be sorry for its death, though he himself 
 had allowed it to be killed. 
 
 _ The queen, who had been ill for some time, now 
 grew much worse. The king sent for a man to cure 
 her, who, it was said, had the spirit of Mane-mane 
 dwelling in him. You remember that that old priest 
 was considered very powerful. However, the queen 
 was not cured. 
 
 At nine o'clock in the morning of July 21st, 1806, 
 Tetua died, aged about twenty-four years. Alas, 
 though she had known the missionaries for nine years, 
 she died a stranger to the true God. 
 
 The king appeared unhappy at her death, and so 
 did several of his servants. Idia and a few other 
 women cut themselves with sharks' teeth upon the 
 occasion. The body was put in a canoe the same 
 day, and taken to Pare to be embalmed, and placed 
 under a shed in a little ';ourt. All things the queen 
 had used in her lifetime were placed near her, such 
 as her cups, combs, dishes, baskets, and tomahawk ; 
 but they were broken, in order to prevent people tak- 
 
88 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 ing .them aw^y. Her relations brought her fool 
 every day ; and as they laid it on the altar, they 
 offered a short prayer to tell her that there were fish 
 and cocoa-nuts for her spirit. 
 
 "While these events were occurring, the brethren 
 ceased not to labor, as we have before described, in 
 teaching the people, and making journeys round the 
 island. As they were cast down at seeing no person 
 turn to God, in May they appointed a day for fasting 
 and prayer. On this day they met together four 
 times for prayer, and implored God to pardon their 
 sins, and to enable them to bring some of the poor 
 heathen to a knowledge of himself. 
 
 Mr. Davies had taken particular pains to teach the 
 children in Tahiti. He had walked much about the 
 island on purpose to find them ; and Mr. Scott and 
 Mr. Wilson had sometimes done the same". They 
 had all found great difficulty in getting the children 
 to come round them to be taught. At first, the chil- 
 dren were shy, and frightened ; and afterwards they 
 were idle ; and as they liked play better than learn- 
 ing, they often ran and hid themselves when they 
 saw their teachers coming. The grown-up people 
 did the children a great deal of harm by their bad 
 advice. They told them to say to the missionaries, 
 " You come very often, but what property do you 
 give us ? If you do not bring us beads, pins, or fish- 
 hooks, we will not be taught. What is the good of 
 
THE FIRST SCHOOL. 89 
 
 teaching us ? It only tires us. You say you pity 
 us ; why do you not give us cloth ?" 
 
 These poor little children did not know the value 
 of their souls. How could they know it, when 
 their parents taught them only to care for such 
 things ? 
 
 The grown-up people often sat by the children 
 while they were being taught, and talked to them, 
 or even w.hispered nonsense into their ears, to make 
 them laugh, or contradicted all the missionaries said, 
 and told the children it was nonsense. 
 
 You will, perhaps, wish to know what kind of in- 
 struction the missionaries gave to the children. They 
 could not teach them to read, for the children would 
 not look at their letters ; so they only taught them 
 to repeat a short catechism by heart. Some of the 
 children at last learned this catechism perfectly, and 
 even remembered it after not having been taught 
 for several months. This was some encouragement 
 to the brethren, and induced them to make a longer 
 catechism. 
 
 They found, however, that they wasted much time 
 in going to look for the children, especially since the 
 king's return to Tahiti ; for now there were feasts 
 continually given in different places, and the children 
 were always going to these feasts ; and some of the 
 boys became servants to the king, and followed him 
 about from place to place. 
 
90 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 In November, 1806, Mr. Davies opened a school 
 in the new house, and invited the boys, who lived 
 near, to attend it on three evenings in the week. The 
 boys that helped the brethren to cook were among 
 the scholars. The children liked the school so much, 
 that a month afterwards, they asked Mr. Davies to 
 teach them oftener. He agreed to instruct them 
 every morning. These boys learned to read and to 
 write. They were taught first to make letters on 
 the sand by the sea-shore. The missionaries pre- 
 pared some spelling-books for them, and some his- 
 tories from the Bible, and sent the books to England 
 to be printed, and in the meanwhile they used in 
 the school little books they had written out. This 
 school cheered the missionaries' spirits, because the 
 boys seemed to take a pleasure in learning. 
 
 Another event happened at the end of the year, 
 which gave the brethren some relief. They had not 
 heard from their friends in England for five years 
 not since the Royal Admiral had brought the new 
 missionaries. At length a vessel arrived with letters 
 and parcels. Their joy, however, was mixed with 
 disappointment ; for the clothes that had been sent 
 to them, were so much injured by the sea- water, that 
 many of them could not be used at all. 
 
 The brethren, knowing Pomare's covetous disposi- 
 tion, sent him some of the things they had received, 
 and wrote him the following note : 
 
POMARE'S LETTER. 91 
 
 " POMARE This is the property that is left for 
 you, ten hatchets, ten scissors, ten looking-glasses, 
 six razors. They are from all the missionaries. The 
 cloth is rotten. 
 
 "JOHN YOUL." 
 
 Soon afterwards they received the following note 
 /rom the king : 
 
 " FRIENDS I am greatly pleased with your present, 
 
 "POMARE." 
 
 As there was no word for " thanks" in Tahitian, 
 Pomare could not have expressed his gratitude, even 
 if he had felt any. 
 
 By this ship there arrived a letter for Pomare from 
 the directors of the London Missionary Society. . It 
 was in English, and was read to Pomare by the breth- 
 ren in Tahitian. Pomare was able to answer the 
 letter himself. He wrote a long letter in Tahitian, 
 the brethren translated it into English, and then Po- 
 mare copied the English, and sent both the Tahitian 
 letter and the English letter to the directors. 
 
 As the letter was long, I will only give a part of it. 
 
 " FRIENDS I wish you every blessing, friends, in 
 your residence in your country, with success in teach- 
 big this bad land, this foolish land, this land which 
 knoweth not the true God, this regardless land. 
 
 " Your request I fully consent to, and shall conse- 
 quently banish Oro, and send him to Raiatea. 
 
92 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 " Friends, I hope also you will consent to my re- 
 quest, which is this: I wish you to send a great 
 number of men, women, and children here. Friends, 
 send also property and cloth for us, and wf^ also will 
 adopt English customs. 
 
 " Friends, send also plenty of muskets, and pow- 
 der, for wars are frequent in our country. Should I 
 be killed, you will have nothing in Tahiti. Do not 
 come here when I am dead ; Tahiti is a regardless 
 country. 
 
 11 This also I wish, that you would send me all the 
 curious things that you have in England. Also, 
 send me every thing necessary for writing paper, 
 ink, and . pens, in abundance ; let no writing utensil 
 be wanting. 
 
 "As for your desire to instruct Tahiti, it is what 
 I fully acquiesce in. It is a common thing for peo- 
 ple not to understand at first; but your object is 
 good, and I fully consent to it, and shall cast off all 
 evil customs. 
 
 " What I say is truth, and no lie ; it is the real 
 truth." 
 
 "Was this letter sincere? Can we think it was, 
 when Pomare very soon afterwards desired that a 
 man might be killed at Atehuru as a sacrifice, and 
 taken in a canoe to another place ? In order to con- 
 ceal the deed from the missionaries, he desired that 
 
THE KING'S UNBELIEF. 93 
 
 the canoe, in passing Matavai, might keep far out to 
 eea. Pomare made such fair promises to the direc- 
 tors in England, only that he might coax them to 
 Bend him property. He did not now wish to be in- 
 structed about God, though he once had appeared 
 inclined to attend. As he was almost all day in one 
 of the rooms of the brethren, he was often spoken to 
 about his soul, and his sins, but he always turned 
 the conversation to some other subject; and still 
 seemed to be a "child of the devil," "an enemy of 
 all righteousness." 
 
04 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 PARKER DAYS THAN ANY THAT HAD GONE BEFORE, SUCCEEDED 
 BY VERY BRIGHT ONES. 
 
 THE event the brethren dreaded at length occurred. 
 In May, 1807, there was another war in Tahiti. 
 
 A very trifling circumstance was the principal oc- 
 casion of it. A man in Atehuru made the bones of 
 a chief, who had once been slain in battle, into fish- 
 hooks. Now this chief was a relation of the king's, 
 and it was considered an insult to the king to turn 
 the bones to such a use. The king was much in- 
 clined to war, and he was encouraged to begin it by 
 one of those wicked men who pretended to be in- 
 spired by Oro. This prophet, who was called Metia, 
 said that Oro was angry, and that he wished the king 
 to fight against the men of Atehuru. This war last- 
 ed about three years, and the island was in such an 
 unsettled state, that the missionaries were all obliged 
 to leave it. Mr. Nott and Mr. Hayward went to the 
 neighboring island of Huahine, but all the rest went 
 to Port Jackson, in New South Wales. After some 
 time, the brethren who were at Port Jackson received 
 a letter from Pomare, in which he told them that 
 many chiefs had brought men from other islands to 
 help him to subdue his rebellious subjects, and that 
 
MISSIONARIES AT E1MEO. 95 
 
 he was now acknowledged king, and at the same 
 time he entreated them to return. 
 
 ' Soon afterwards letters arrived from Mr. Hayward 
 and Mr. Nott, mentioning that they were with the 
 king at Eimeo, and that peace still continued. Most 
 of the missionaries accordingly returned the first op- 
 portunity to the poor heathen. After a fatiguing 
 voyage, they arrived at Eimeo on the last day of 
 October. They found the king there as well as his 
 mother Idia, Mr. Hayward, and Mr. Nott. 
 
 Pomare received them with great delight. The 
 brethren soon observed that he appeared to regard 
 his idols less than he had done in time past : partly, 
 perhaps, from having found the prophecies of the 
 prophet Mitia, respecting his success, so false ; part- 
 ly, perhaps, from his afflictions, and the company, at 
 such a season, of Mr. Nott and Mr. Hayward. 
 
 The missionaries had to suffer great inconven- 
 iences, as they had no comfortable houses, like those 
 they had built in Tahiti. 
 
 Before these missionaries had arrived, Pomare had 
 written another letter to Mr. Henry, entreating him 
 to come. This is part of his letter : 
 
 "Where are Mr. and Mrs. Eyre? Are they set- 
 tled? I am grieving for them. "Where are the 
 other missionaries ? Where is their dwelling-plaoe ? 
 I shall not give over my sorrowing for them. We 
 
96 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 do not regard our dwelling-place here, since the mis- 
 sionaries are not here ; they are wanted to make us 
 happy. We are now lonesome Notty and Mr. Hay- 
 ward also. My good friends, agree to my request to 
 you, and then I shall be happy : come you here, my 
 dear friend, come you here to Tahiti. When you 
 come, procure a little wine for us. If you come, I 
 shall be happy. Write to me, that I may know youi 
 sentiments, my dear friend. Do not be neglectful, 
 as I am grieving for you, my dear friend. Don't you 
 closely look at this badly written letter. 
 
 "Health and happiness to you, and Mrs. Henry; 
 may you live and prosper. Tare, Tiritahi, and little 
 Jo also.^ 
 
 " May we all be saved by Jehovah, the true God 
 of this world our Confidence. 
 
 " POMARE." 
 
 There were now seven missionaries in Eimeo, 
 namely, Messrs. Nott, Hayward, Bicknell, Scott, Wil- 
 son, Davies, and Henry. 
 
 The place where they settled was called Pa-pe- 
 to-ai, and was situated near Talu harbor, a safe and 
 convenient place for ships to cast anchor in. 
 
 Here they built dwellings, and planted gardens ; 
 they built also a very small chapel, in which they 
 had service every Sabbath in the Tahitian language ; 
 
 * These were the names the natives gave to Mr. Henry's 
 children, Sarah, Samuel, and Eleanor. 
 
A JOYFUL EVENT. 97 
 
 but very few people attended, as most of the chiefs 
 had gone with their servants to Tahiti. This chapel 
 only cost them twenty-four looking-glasses, which had 
 been bought in England for sixteen shillings, and 
 which they gave to the natives, as a reward for as- 
 sisting to build the chapel. 
 
 They also opened a school, but could only procure 
 twenty scholars, whom they taught to write on the 
 sand, and to read in printed spelling-books. 
 
 They wished to go to other islands to spread the 
 Gospel, but they thought it would be well first to 
 build a ship that might be always at their command, 
 to take them from island to island. In order to build 
 it, they were obliged to remain together. Some 
 events also occurred which inclined them to continue 
 in Eimeo. One of these was the most joyful that 
 could have happened, though others were of a mourn- 
 ful nature. 
 
 Pomare grew more and more attentive to the breth- 
 ren's instructions, and on one occasion he gave a proof 
 of his disregard of his idols that caused much surprise. 
 
 It was the custom, when the natives caught a tur- 
 tle, to bring it to Pomare, because it was a sacred 
 animal, that might not be eaten like other food. It 
 was thought necessary that the king should send it 
 first to the idol's temple to be dressed with sacred 
 fire, and give part of it to the idol before he ate any 
 himself. 
 
 Night of Toil. 7 
 
i)8 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 In the spring of 1812, a turtle was caught, and 
 Pomare's servants were taking it to the temple, when 
 the king called them back, and desired them to dress 
 it in the oven in his kitchen, and to serve it all up 
 for his dinner. 
 
 The servants thought the king was mad, or in joke , 
 out when they heard him repeat the order, they were 
 obliged to obey. 
 
 At dinnertime the king's friends and servants 
 stood around in silence, expecting to see the king 
 presently fall in convulsions, or drop down dead. In 
 vain the king asked them to eat with him, and as- 
 sured them that the gods had no power to hurt them. 
 The servants, as they removed the dishes, expressed 
 their surprise that he had not yet been punished, 
 while they still fully expected, that before the mor- 
 row, some judgment would be sent. But, as no harm 
 did befall him, the king was much confirmed by this 
 event, in his contempt of idols. 
 
 Pomare's conduct on this occasion would have 
 been much more surprising, if another of the natives 
 had not already tried a still bolder experiment. This 
 native was Pahi, the brother of the king of Raiatea. 
 Some time before, when he was at Tahiti with king 
 Pomare, he dreamed that a large fierce cat pounced 
 upon him, and tore his face in a shocking manner. 
 He awoke in great alarm, but falling asleep again, 
 dreamed the same thing ; and after again awaking, 
 
POMARE'S MARRIAGE. 99 
 
 fell asleep, and dreamed it a third time. He then 
 said to himself, " This is my bad god who has disturb- 
 ed me ; I will destroy it." Next day he seized the 
 log of wood, which till then he had worshipped, threw 
 it into the flames of an oven, and baked some bread- 
 fruit with it. The natives were astonished at his 
 boldness in burning the god ; but still more at his 
 daring to eat the breadfruit that had been baked 
 with its ashes. Pomare was then very angry with 
 Pahi, and yet, as you have seen, soon afterwards 
 behaved in a similar manner. 
 
 About this time Pomare declared, that for the fu- 
 ture he would only have one wife. He determined 
 to marry the eldest daughter of the king of Raiatea. 
 Accordingly he sent a message to that monarch to 
 inform him of his intention, promising to send a fleet 
 of canoes with some chiefs, to fetch the princess.' The 
 king of Raiatea had another daughter, named Tera, 
 a little younger than her sister, and much handsomer. 
 She asked her father to allow her to visit Pomare 
 immediately, and when she had obtained permission, 
 she set out, accompanied by a great train of chiefs, 
 both men and women. When Pomare saw her, he 
 liked her so well that he determined to make her his 
 wife. It is probable that Tera had hoped, before 
 she set out, that Pornare would act in this manner. 
 Pomare was, however, afraid lest the king of Raiatea 
 should be offended at what he had done, and should 
 
100 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 go to war with, him ; therefore he said to Tera, " You 
 shall not be my queen; your eldest sister shall be 
 my queen, and you shall be my wife" 
 
 He sent the fleet to fetch the eldest sister, as he 
 had promised ; and when she arrived, she bore the 
 title of Pomare Vahine, or the female Pomare, and 
 was treated with more honor than her sister. But 
 though Pomare appointed his wife's sister to the dig- 
 nity of queen, we will not call her. queen in this his- 
 tory, because in other histories she is not spoken of 
 under that name. We shall therefore call Tera queen, 
 and Pomare Vahine we shall call the queen's sister. 
 You will, however, expect to hear of Pomare Yahine 
 very often, and to find that she is a person of great 
 consequence. She was also the queen of the island 
 of Huahine, though, as she did not live there, a per- 
 son called regent ruled in her stead. 
 
 At length Tera the queen had a little daughter. 
 The conduct of Pomare, with regard to this infant, 
 was very hopeful. In former times, very strange 
 commands were given upon the birth of a royal in- 
 fant. No fires were allowed to be lighted for many 
 days, except at a great distance from its dwelling. 
 No boat was allowed to leave the shore, so that the 
 people were generally much distressed for fish ; and 
 no persons were permitted to approach the child ex- 
 cept sacred persons, dressed in sacred clothes. Po- 
 mare observed none of these customs, but told the 
 
THE KING DESIRES BAPTISM. 101 
 
 missionaries that he wished his baby to be brought 
 up like an English child, and asked them to give 
 him cups, saucers, and spoons, that he might have 
 it fed in the English manner. This child was called 
 Ai-ma-ta, of whom you will hear much hereafter. 
 
 On the 18th of July, 1812, Pomare held a con- 
 versation with the missionaries which greatly de- 
 lighted them. He came to them and said, "You do 
 not know the thoughts of my heart, nor I yours, but 
 God does." This was the way he began the conver- 
 sation. I cannot repeat it all, but in the course of it 
 he said, " I wish to be baptized, for it is my fixed 
 purpose to cleave to Jehovah, and to you, who arc 
 his people. I wish you to pray for me." 
 
 One of the brethren replied, " We have never 
 ceased to pray for you, and it would truly rejoice us 
 to see you give your heart to God. Then we would 
 baptize you." 
 
 Pomare again answered, " You do not know my 
 heart, nor I yours ; but He who made men knows 
 their hearts, and whether they speak truth or false- 
 hood to each other." 
 
 The brethren then said, "It is the custom for 
 missionaries not to baptize heathens as soon as they 
 desire it, but to wait, and instruct them in the 
 things of God for some time, and to observe their 
 conduct, to see whether they have truly forsaken evil 
 ways." 
 

 102 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Pomare replied, " I am willing to do as you think 
 proper, and to be baptized when you see fit." 
 
 In the course of this conversation, Pomare said, 
 " I should like to build a chapel ;" for the chapel 
 already built was very small. 
 
 The missionaries proposed waiting till all the, con- 
 fusion in the islands was over ; but Pomare answered, 
 " Let us not mind it ; let the chapel be built at all 
 events." Pomare also said, " I have been trying to 
 persuade Tamatoa and Tapoa," who were kings of 
 other islands, " to do as I intend to do ; but they say, 
 * You may do as you please ; for our parts, we will 
 cleave to Oro.' But that is the same," observed 
 Pomare, " as cleaving to Satan. If no one else would 
 hear you, or turn to your God, yet I would ; for I de- 
 sire to be happy after death, and to be saved in the 
 day of judgment." 
 
 It is impossible to express what joy the missiona- 
 ries felt, when they heard Pomare speak in this man- 
 ner. They were not, however, quite sure whether 
 Pomare was really converted, and they waited with 
 anxiety to observe his behavior. 
 
 They would have begun to build the chapel imme- 
 diately, but in less than a month after this conver- 
 sation, two chiefs came over from Tahiti, and invited 
 Pomare to return, promising to endeavor to reconcile 
 all their disputes with him ; for the peace that had 
 been already made between Pomare and his subject* 
 
POMARE'S PENITENT LETTERS. 10'J 
 
 had not been a sound and sincere one. The mission- 
 aries beheld him depart to Tahiti with great regret, 
 as they feared lest he should yield to the temptations 
 he would meet with. 
 
 About this time they were encouraged to hope for 
 more conversions, by the happy death of one of their 
 young servants. Though, when first taken ill, he 
 would not listen to them, he seemed at length to be 
 brought to repentance, and cried for pardoning mercy 
 through Christ, till he could speak no more. 
 
 The brethren received from Pomare after his de- 
 parture, very different letters from any he had ever 
 written before. In one of these letters he said, 
 
 " You indeed will be saved, you are become the 
 people of God ; but I may be banished to hell ; God 
 may not regard me ; I am a wicked man, and my 
 sins are great, and heaped together." 
 
 In another letter he said, 
 
 "I was taken ill about three o'clock on Monday 
 morning last. My affliction is great, but if I can 
 only obtain God's favor before I die, I shall count 
 myself well off. But 0, should I die with my sins 
 unpardoned, it will be ill indeed with me." 
 
 In a third letter Pomare wrote thus : 
 
 " I continue to pray to God without ceasing. Re- 
 gardless of other things, I am concerned only thfit my 
 
104 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 soul may be saved by Jesus Christ. It is my earnest 
 desire that I may become one of Jehovah's people, 
 and that God may turn away his anger from me, 
 which I deserve for my wickedness, my ignorance of 
 him, and my heaped-up crimes." 
 
 Some months afterwards, Pomare seemed to feel a 
 brighter hope of pardon, for he said in another letter, 
 
 "I venture with my guilt to Jesus Christ, though 
 I am not equalled in wickedness, nor equalled in 
 guilt, nor equalled in obstinate wickedness and rejec- 
 tion of the truth ; that this very wicked man may be 
 saved by Jehovah Jesus Christ." 
 
 The missionaries now thought that Pomare must 
 be really converted* for he seemed so much grieved 
 on account of his sins. He also appeared anxious to 
 do what was right, for in the last letter that has 
 been quoted, he said, " There are a great many thieves 
 in Tahiti ; they have stolen six pieces of cloth, and 
 books, and other things. Shall I sin in killing the 
 thieves ? Write me fully what you think, my dear 
 friends." 
 
 Once Pomare murdered men who had done him 
 no harm ; now he was afraid of being cruel to those 
 who had robbed him. He also observed the Sabbath 
 constantly, and endeavored to persuade all his friends 
 to turn to God. Though he was a king, many 
 
A GREAT CHANGE. .105 
 
 mocked him on account of his religion, and told him 
 angrily, that he was the cause of all the troubles in 
 Tahiti, because he had offended Oro, who had made 
 him king. 
 
 The missionaries were filled with astonishment to 
 think that so very wicked a man as Pomare had 
 been, should turn to God ; yet Christ, they knew, 
 came to save the chief of sinners. They gave all 
 the glory of the change to the great and wonderful 
 grace of God, which alone could change so great and 
 wonderful a sinner. 
 
JOG THE NIGHT OF TOTL 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE JOYFUL DISCOVERY. 
 
 THE missionaries now found the people in JEiineo 
 very ready to attend to their instructions, and they 
 heard that the people in Tahiti also were inquiring 
 after the true God. It was agreed that two of the 
 brethren should go over to Tahiti, to see whether the 
 joyful report was true. 
 
 Mr. Scott and Mr. Hayward were sent upon this 
 errand. They landed in Tahiti, and slept that night 
 in one of the native houses. Early in the morning 
 they rose, and each went to look for some retired 
 place among the bushes where he might pray. While 
 Mr. Scott was alone, he heard a voice ; it seemed the 
 voice of prayer ; he drew nearer to the place whence 
 it came, and heard a Tahitian blessing the true God. 
 It was the first time he had ever heard such words 
 from a Tahitian's lips. Tears of joy rolled down his 
 cheeks, and he longed to clasp the Christian man to 
 his heart ; but he waited in silence till the man left 
 the spot, and. then he knelt down, and thanked God 
 fervently for having bestowed his Spirit upon the 
 poor heathen. Mr. Scott returned to the house, and 
 there met his friend Mr. Hayward, whom he in- 
 formed of the joyful event. They inquired amongst 
 
THE PRAYING TAHITIANS. 107 
 
 the natives for the man who had left off worshipping 
 idols, and were told of one named 0-i-to, who had 
 done so. They sought for him, and heard his own 
 account of himself. Oito had once been a servant 
 to the missionaries, when they had lived in Tahiti, 
 but he had not then believed ; lately he had been 
 struck with some remarks the king had made, and 
 longing for instruction, he had gone to a man called 
 Tu-a-hi-ne, who had been servant to the missionaries 
 for many years, and he had asked him to teach him. 
 Tuahine was in the same state of mind as Oito. 
 These two often met to pray together, and to con- 
 verse, amongst the lonely places in the mountain. 
 The change in their behavior was soon observed by 
 their countrymen. Some ridiculed them ; a few, 
 however, joined their little prayer-meetings, and 
 agreed to give up worshipping idols, and all evil 
 customs, and to keep the Sabbath-day. Such was 
 the account that Oito gave of himself to the mis- 
 sionaries. 
 
 Mr. Scott immediately wrote a letter to inform the 
 brethren in Eimeo of these happy events. When 
 the brethren read the letter, they shed tears of grate- 
 ful joy. They felt now that they were rewarded for 
 sixteen years of toil, and watching, and alarm ; for 
 God had granted to the Gentiles repentance unto 
 life. 
 
 Mr. Scott and Mr. Hay ward went round the island 
 
108 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 of Tahiti, preaching the Gospel, and then invited 
 Oito and Tuahine, and their praying companions, to 
 return with them to Eimeo, to receive instruction at 
 school, and at chapel. These Christian natives were 
 glad to accept the invitation, especially as Tahiti 
 was at this time in a state of great confusion arid 
 wickedness. You may imagine how affectionately 
 these people were received by the brethren in 
 Eimeo. 
 
 The missionaries knew that there were many 
 people in Eimeo desirous of serving the true God, 
 and they were anxious to discover who they were, 
 that they might instruct and watch over them. I 
 will now relate the plan they adopted for this 
 purpose. 
 
 The chapel that Pomare had desired to be built, 
 was opened for public worship on July 25th, 1813, 
 just one year after Pomare's order had been given 
 The king himself was not there at the opening, as he 
 was still at Tahiti. When the evening service was 
 just over, Mr. Davies invited all persons who sin- 
 cerely desired to cast away their idols, to come to 
 the chapel the next evening, that he might write 
 down their names in a book. About forty attended 
 at the time appointed. The brethren prayed and 
 sung, and Mr. Nott gave a short address, and asked 
 all to come forward who really desired to serve the 
 true God alone. Thirty-one consented to have their 
 
ILLNESS OF THE BRETHREN. 109 
 
 names written down ; amongst these were Oito and 
 Tuahine. The brethren invited this little company 
 to meet them often in the chapel to be instructed 
 privately. 
 
 One of them named Mu-i, was soon called to his 
 rest. This poor youth had shown great love for the 
 word of God and prayer, and had crept to the bushes, 
 to pray in secret, as long as he had strength. When 
 confined to his hut, he would say, as the people 
 passed by on their way to school or chapel, "My feet 
 cannot go, but my heart goes with you." 
 
 About the same time a person of a very different 
 character died. This was Idia. She had always 
 been a bitter enemy to Christ, and had even pre- 
 vented others from confessing their belief in him. 
 Several persons who had been afraid of declaring 
 they were Christians in her lifetime, did so as soon 
 as she was dead. It is true, she had been kind to 
 the missionaries, but not for their Master's sake. 
 
 The missionaries suffered much from illness, espe- 
 cially from swellings in their limbs, and from bilious 
 attacks. Sometimes almost all of them were ill at 
 the same time, and unable to preach. The Christian 
 natives lamented their teachers' illness, with tears in 
 their eyes, saying, "Alas, what will become of us, if 
 you die ?" The brethren themselves feared that 
 some of their lives would soon be cut short, and they 
 wrote letters to England, entreating that more mis- 
 
110 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 sionaries might be sent to their help ; yet in all their 
 weakness they had much to rejoice in. 
 
 They observed with delight that the people they 
 instructed prayed daily, both in their families and 
 secretly amongst the bushes, and constantly asked 
 a blessing upon their food. For these habits, the 
 Christians were much ridiculed by the heathen, and 
 called u Bu-re A-tu-a," or praying people. This was 
 an honorable title, but it was meant as a reproach. 
 In all countries, the people of God are mocked by the 
 ungodly. In England and the United States, they 
 are often called "saints, methodists, evangelical," 
 and many other names ; but such reproaches are an 
 honor indeed ; for Christ himself was even called 
 "Beelzebub, or the devil." Matt. 12 : 24. 
 
 There were many persons from other islands as- 
 sembled in Eimeo at this time, and some of them 
 were anxious to be instructed by the missionaries, 
 and came and dwelt near them. They had come to 
 Eimeo to assist Pomare in his wars ; but God, in his 
 wisdom, had brought them there that they might 
 carry back the peaceful tidings of salvation to their 
 own countries. During this year, some of them 
 returned to Raiatea and Huahiiie, whence they 
 came. 
 
 Mr. Nott and Mr. Hayward went to visit these 
 islands in a ship that touched at Eimeo, and found 
 the people ready to assemble to hear them of their 
 
CONDUCT OF THE KING. Ill 
 
 own accord, and full of contempt for their idols, call- 
 ing them bad and foolish gods. At the end of two 
 months, the two brethren returned with the joyful 
 account to Eimeo. Some of the missionaries would 
 gladly have gone to live in the neighboring islands, 
 but they were obliged to keep together to finish the 
 ship. They were also so frequently ill, that they 
 were afraid of separating from each other. . 
 
 The missionaries were anxious to baptize those 
 people in Eimeo who appeared truly converted. But 
 as Pomare was the first who had asked to be bap- 
 tized, they thought it proper to write to him on the 
 subject. They had been grieved by hearing bad 
 accounts of his conduct, especially of his drinking too 
 much, a sin to which he had always been much in- 
 clined. In their letter to him, they begged him to 
 consider his own case, and whether he was in a fit 
 state for baptism. 
 
 Pomare wrote to them in answer, that he should 
 soon return to Eimeo, and that he did not wish any 
 persons to be baptized before he came, arid recom- 
 mended the brethren to wait to see whether the 
 people were sincere in their religion. 
 
 The brethren, however, were not so fearful of any 
 of the people having deceived themselves, as they 
 were of Pomare himself. 
 
 It was selfish in Pomare to wish to make the peo- 
 ple wait to be baptized, till he should return ; but 
 
112 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 he seemed to have a proud desire to be the first to 
 be baptized, and perhaps it was not right in the 
 brethren to grant his desire. 
 
 After an absence of two years, the king returned 
 to Eimeo ; but when he came, though he expressed 
 a strong desire to be baptized, the brethren felt too 
 much dissatisfied with him, to comply with his re- 
 quest ; yet they did not baptize any of his people. 
 He still continued firmly resolved to be a Christian 
 in name, but alas, he did not appear to possess a re- 
 newed heart. 
 
CONVERSION OF A PRIEST. 113 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 HOW THE IDOLS WERE PUBLICLY INSULTED. 
 
 THE people in Eimeo grew more and more anxious 
 for instruction. There were now above three hun- 
 dred names written down, and three hundred schol- 
 ars, chiefly grown up people, who attended the 
 schools every day. 
 
 At this time a very striking conversion took place, 
 which shook exceedingly the power of Satan among 
 the heathen. 
 
 One evening Mr. Nott, after preaching at the tents 
 of one of the great chiefs who had visited Eimeo, 
 was returning home by the sea-shore, when a priest 
 called Pa-ti-i, followed him. He had listened to Mr. 
 Nott's sermon, and now seemed anxious to converse 
 with him. Mr. Nott was astonished to hear him 
 say, " To-morrow evening I shall burn the idols un- 
 der my care." 
 
 Mr. Nott replied, " I fear you are jesting with me : 
 you know we wish you to burn them; but do you 
 really intend to do so ? I can scarcely believe what 
 you say." 
 
 " Don't be unbelieving," replied Patii ; " wait till 
 to-morrow, and you shall see." The rest of the way, 
 Mr. Nott and Patii conversed only about Jesus Christ 
 and his salvation. 
 
 Night of ToU. 
 
114 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 When Mr. !Nbtt told his brethren what Patii had 
 said, they wondered whether he would keep his word, 
 and feared that if he did, the people would be much 
 enraged by his burning their honored idols. 
 
 The next morning Patii and his friends were col- 
 lecting wood near the sea-shore ; in the afternoon 
 they were splitting it, and making a great pile near 
 the idols' temple. 
 
 A great number of the heathen, as well as the 
 missionaries and their friends, assembled at the place 
 in the evening. Just before the setting of the sun, 
 Patii appeared and ordered his servants to set lire to 
 the pile of wood. He then went to the idols' house, 
 and brought the gods out, one at a time, as he had 
 often done before. But he did not now praise them 
 as in former times, but after spreading them in a row 
 upon the ground, he tore off the cloths which covered 
 them, stripped them of their ornaments, and then 
 threw them one by one into the flames ; and as he 
 threw each, he pronounced its name, and repeated its 
 foolish history, calling upon the people to observe 
 what a helpless log it was. Never had the sun set 
 upon a more joyous sight, than upon those expiring 
 flames, which had consumed the chief idols of Eimeo. 
 
 The heathen returned home, astonished at whal 
 they had seen. Some expected that the gods would 
 fioon show their anger, while others doubted more 
 than ever whether the gods had any power at all, 
 
CONTEMPT FOR IDOLS. 115 
 
 and began to burn their idols and to destroy their 
 temples. Patii himself from this time diligently 
 listened to the missionaries, and walked worthy of 
 the blessed Gospel of Christ. 
 
 The queen's sister, about the same time, publicly 
 showed her contempt for idols. She had arrived the 
 year before at Eimeo, accompanied by a great train 
 of servants. Amongst them was a man called Fa- 
 refau, who became a Christian, had his name written 
 down, and attended the school. 
 
 This spring the chiefs of Eimeo sent, according to 
 the custom, a large present of pigs, and fruit, as a 
 feast for the princess. Before the feast was given, 
 the princess, who was herself inclined to be a Chris- 
 tian, consulted the king and her other friends on. the 
 subject. She wished to prevent the ears of a pig, or 
 the head of a fish, being taken to the marae, as an 
 offering to the gods ; for she desired the food to be 
 sanctified by the true God. It was determined that 
 some person should oiler a prayer to this God over 
 the food, before it was eaten. It required great cour- 
 age to offer such a prayer before the idolaters. Fare- 
 fau, however, undertook to do it, and kept his word. 
 
 The priests, who were waiting near, ready to carry 
 the food to the marae, were enraged ; but yet they 
 durst not take it there, after it had been offered to 
 the Christians' God. 
 
 Soon afterwards the queen's sister went over to 
 
116 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Tahiti, accompanied by the queen herself. Pomare 
 gave them a book to convey to his little girl, who 
 was now three years old, and who was residing at 
 Tahiti with her nurse. 
 
 When the idolaters in Tahiti heard that the king 
 had sent a book to his little daughter, they saw that 
 he intended to bring her up in the new religion, and 
 they were more determined than ever, not to let Po- 
 mare be king. 
 
 The chiefs, as usual, gave a feast to the queen and 
 her sister on her arrival in Tahiti. Some of the 
 priests, observing that these ladies despised their 
 gods, began to speak to them in an insulting manner, 
 and to threaten them with the anger of the beings 
 they despised, and, at the same time, pointed to some 
 bunches of red feathers, which were hanging near, 
 and which were intended to represent their gods. 
 
 Farefau, hearing these speeches, exclaimed, " Are 
 these feathers the mighty things with whose anger 
 you threaten us ? I will soon settle the affair." He 
 instantly seized hold of them, and threw them into 
 an oven, which was dug near, and thus destroyed 
 them. 
 
 This act was perhaps unwise. The idolaters were 
 exceedingly provoked by it, and though they durst 
 not revenge themselves on the spot, they waited for 
 an opportunity to do so. 
 
 While the queen and her sister were in Tahiti, 
 
POMARE'S ZEAL. 117 
 
 Pomare set out upon a journey round Eimeo, for the 
 purpose of persuading the heathen, wherever he went, 
 to turn from idols. It may surprise you, after what 
 you have heard of Pomare, to find that he could take 
 so much pains in God's service. The missionaries 
 also were perplexed by him : sometimes they hoped 
 he was a child of God, and sometimes they feared he 
 was a child of the devil. 
 
 During the journey he wrote to the missionaries. 
 In his letter, he said, 
 
 " I am highly pleased, that the chief people attend 
 so well to the word of God. This was my business 
 in this journey, to make known to them the word 
 of God ; and, behold, they have listened unto it ; 
 they have regarded it. Had it been otherwise, I 
 should have been much grieved. To-morrow is our 
 meeting for prayer ; the beginning of the new month. 
 Should these even ask me to write down their names, 
 how ought I to act ? Shall I write them ? "Write 
 your mind to me without delay, and give me instruc- 
 tions how to do. May you be blessed of God. 
 
 "POMARE, KING." 
 
 This letter would have given the missionaries much 
 comfort, had not some parts of Pomare' s conduct 
 alarmed them. 
 
 While the word of God was taking root in some 
 hearts, sin raged more violently in those of others, 
 
118 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 The rebelh^us Tahitians had committed dreadful 
 deeds for a long while past. They had seized an 
 English vessel, had murdered some on board, and 
 had attempted to seize other vessels ; they had per- 
 secuted the Christian natives, burnt one of their 
 houses of worship, and hunted them as sacrifices for 
 Oro. It was considered dangerous to be known as a 
 Christian. Some indeed were brave enough to wor- 
 ship God openly ; but others, like Nicodemns, were 
 afraid to confess Christ, and only met together for 
 prayer at midnight, in the thick woods and lonely 
 valleys. 
 
 Amongst those who suffered for the sake of Christ, 
 was a young man, whose affecting history I will now 
 relate. 
 
 When he became a Christian, his relations laughed 
 at him ; then they made him flattering promises, on 
 condition he would again worship their gods ; and 
 last of all, they threatened him, and cast him out of 
 his father's house. After he was become an outcast, 
 his enemies fixed upon him for a sacrifice to their 
 idols. They went in search of him, and found him 
 sitting beneath some trees at the top of a hill near 
 his little dwelling. He had retired to that quiet spot 
 to meditate upon God, before he offered up his even- 
 ing prayer. 
 
 He saw a crowd of servants of the priests and 
 chiefs approaching as once in Gethsemane, our Sav- 
 
THE HAPPY ESCAPE. 119 
 
 iour had beheld Judas and his enemies. Suddenly 
 the young man guessed the purpose for which they 
 were come. ', When they came near, they told him 
 the king was arrived and wished to see him ; he 
 calmly replied, that he did not believe the king was 
 come. They then told him some of his friends wished 
 to see him. But he answered, " Why do you seek 
 to deceive me ? I know that a man is soon to be 
 offered to the idols, and I know that I am to be that 
 man. But Jesus Christ is my keeper. You may be 
 permitted to kill my body, but I am not afraid to die. 
 My soul you cannot hurt ; Jesus Christ will keep it 
 safely." 
 
 His enemies, finding that they could not persuade 
 him to come down with them to the sea-shore, where 
 a canoe was waiting, rushed upon him, and killed 
 him ; then, putting his body into a basket of cocoa- 
 nut leaves, carried him in the canoe to the temple. 
 
 Some time afterwards, the rebels in Tahiti fixed 
 apon a young man named Aberahama, as a sacrifice. 
 He was chosen because he was a Christian. When 
 he saw the priest's servants approaching, he fled ; 
 but was pursued by them, shot at, and wounded. As 
 soon as he received the ball, he fell ; and unable any 
 longer to run, he crawled among some bushes, and 
 hid himself. His enemies endeavored to discover the 
 place of his concealment ; they came very near him 
 several times ; but could not succeed in finding him, 
 
120 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 and at last went away disappointed. When they 
 were gone, and night was come, Aherahama crept 
 out of his hiding-place to the house of his friends, 
 who dressed his wound and carried him to a place 
 of safety. He recovered from his wound, but never 
 lost the honorable scar, which showed that he had 
 endangered his life for the sake of Christ, even of 
 that Saviour who is now seen in heaven, like a lamb 
 as it had been slain. 
 
FAILURE OF THE PLOT 121 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE BATTLE WHICH CHANGED THE STATE OF TAHITI. 
 
 THE year 1815 was the most remarkable that had 
 ever been known in Tahiti. I am now going to 
 relate the great events that occurred in it. 
 
 You have already heard how much the heathen 
 in Tahiti hated the Christian natives. At length 
 some of them determined to destroy them entirely. 
 Many of the heathen chiefs, who had before been 
 at enmity with each other, joined together in this 
 scheme. 
 
 They fixed upon the night of July 7th, when they 
 heard the Christians would be assembled together, 
 probably for prayer, near the sea-shore. 
 
 The Christians came together as was expected; 
 but they were secretly informed of the plan their 
 enemies had made, and immediately jumped into 
 their canoes and sailed for Eimeo, where they ar- 
 rived next morning. The heathen chiefs assembled 
 at the place appointed soon after the Christians had 
 escaped, and were enraged at not finding them. As 
 these chiefs had been enemies formerly, they soon 
 began to quarrel among themselves. The greater 
 part turned against those who had first proposed the 
 slaughter of the Christians, and destroyed many of 
 
122 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 them. Thus God showed his anger against wicked- 
 ness, "by causing the wicked to fall into the pit which 
 he had digged. 
 
 The missionaries in Eimeo of course received with 
 affection the poor Christians who fled to them for 
 protection. "When they heard what had happened, 
 they felt much alarm lest the heathen should at 
 length rise up in hoth islands, and destroy all the 
 worshippers of Jehovah. They set apart the 14th 
 of July as a day of fasting and prayer, to heseech 
 the Lord to turn the hearts of their enemies. They 
 had often set apart days in former times to pray for 
 the conversion of the heathen, and then they had 
 prayed alone, hut now hundreds of native Christians 
 joined in their prayers. 
 
 Their God soon showed them his ear was not 
 heavy that he could not hear, nor his arm short that 
 it could not save. 
 
 Soon afterwards two chiefs from Tahiti arrived in 
 Eimeo. They came to invite the Christian chiefs 
 who had fled to return to their land's. 
 
 It was necessary the king should return with tho 
 Christians, that he might make good their right to 
 their lands, according to the ancient customs. The 
 king, therefore, set out with them and their servants, 
 accompanied also hy many Christians from other 
 islands. They knew that they had numerous enemies 
 in Tahiti, and therefore they were prepared for war. 
 
REMARKABLE DREAM. 123 
 
 "When they arrived in their canoes at the shores 
 of Tahiti, they saw on the beach a great number of 
 people with spears and guns, who forbade them to 
 land, and fired on them several times. The king 
 did not fire on them in return, but sent a flag on 
 shore with an offer of peace. At length the people 
 allowed them to land, and appeared inclined to be 
 peaceable ; so that many of the chiefs returned 
 quietly to their own lands. But though the heathen 
 appeared friendly, they were forming plans for de- 
 stroying the king and his friends. The king sus- 
 pected their wicked intentions, and kept a constant 
 watch over their proceedings. 
 
 One of the king's chief enemies was a man called 
 U-pu-fa-ra. He had often heard of the true God, 
 but would not believe in him. One night he had a 
 dream, in which he saw an immense oven, with a 
 very great fire, and in the midst of it a large fish 
 twisting itself in agony, and trying to get out ; and 
 though in the fire, not consumed, but still living. 
 He awoke much alarmed, and could not sleep again 
 that night ; nor could he forget what he had seen, 
 but thought that perhaps the dream had been sent 
 to show him what he should suffer for his sins in 
 hell. 
 
 Seeing his friends resolved to fight against Pomare, 
 he said to one of them, " Perhaps we are wrong : let 
 us send a message to the king, and propose to make 
 
124 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 peace ; and ask for books, that we may know what 
 this new word is." The priests, however, persuaded 
 him to fight, assuring him that Oro would deliver 
 the praying people into his hands. why did Upu- 
 fara listen to their deceitful counsels, and resist the 
 good desires that had sprung up in his heart ? Who 
 ever hardened himself against G-od and prospered ? 
 
 Two days afterwards he led the people to battle 
 against Pomare. The day of the battle was the 
 Sabbath, Nov. 12, 1815. 
 
 Pomare and his friends did not know that they 
 should be attacked by their enemies on that day, but 
 they knew it was very probable that they should be 
 assailed on some Sabbath, when they were engaged 
 in God's worship ; and therefore they had appointed 
 men to watch outside the chapel while they were 
 assembled in it, and had desired these men to fire if 
 they saw the enemy approaching. 
 
 Early on the Sabbath morning, Pomare and eight 
 hundred persons, some of whom were armed with 
 spears and guns, were collected in the chapel in Bu- 
 na-a-u-ia. They were just going to begin service, 
 when they heard the sound of their watchmen's 
 guns. They looked out and perceived an army at a 
 distance, carrying before them the flags in honor of 
 the idols. 
 
 " It is war, it is war," the Christians exclaimed. 
 Some of them were hastening to their tents for arms, 
 
THE CHRISTIANS ATTACKED. 125 
 
 when Pomare arose and requested them to remain 
 quietly in their places, assuring them that God 
 would protect them during his own worship, which 
 ought on no account to be forsaken. A hymn was 
 then read by one of the company, and sung by the 
 congregation : a portion of Scripture was next read, 
 and a prayer was offered. The service being thus 
 finished, those who were unarmed went to their tents 
 to procure weapons. 
 
 The battle was fought on the sand of the sea- 
 shore, and among the trees that grew close to it. 
 Many of Pomare's army had not yet become Chris- 
 tians ; these were not placed in the front, as they 
 could not be so well trusted as the Christians, who 
 even requested to occupy that situation. Among the 
 warriors was the queen's sister, Pomare Yahine, a 
 tall, strong woman, who wore a sort of net of cords 
 for armor, and held a gun and pear. On one side 
 of her fought Farefau, her bold Christian servant. 
 Pomare himself sat in a canoe, and shot at the enemy. 
 
 The heathen rushed upon Pomare's army with 
 furious courage, having been assured by their priests, 
 that their gods would give them the victory. But 
 the Christians looked up to their God for help, and 
 often knelt, during the battle, upon the grass, either 
 alone, or two or three together, and offered up a short 
 prayer. 
 
 Several were killed on both sides. At length 
 
126 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Upufara, the chief captain of the heathen, was shot, 
 and fell. As he sat gasping on the sand, his friends 
 gathered round him, and endeavored to stop the 
 bleeding of the wound. " Leave me," said the dying 
 warrior. " Mark yonder young man ; he inflicted 
 the wound; on him revenge my death." Thus, 
 breathing vengeance, Upufara expired. Two or 
 three strong men ran towards the man who had 
 shot their captain ; one of them overtook him, and 
 sprang upon him before he was aware ; but, as he 
 was endeavoring to strangle him, was himself slain 
 by the same gun that had destroyed Upufara, and 
 which the man still held in his hand. 
 
 The news of Upufara's death greatly discouraged 
 the heathen army, who were at last obliged to flee 
 to the rocks and mountains for shelter. The king's 
 soldiers were going to pursue them as in former 
 times, but Pomare approached, and cried out, "A-ti- 
 ra," or " It is enough. Pursue none that have fled 
 from the battle, neither burn their houses, nor mur- 
 der their children." You know what cruelties were 
 practised by the heathen on their conquered enemies. 
 How great a change had God wrought in Pomare' s 
 once cruel heart. Even the bodies of the enemy, 
 instead of being left upon the shore for dogs and 
 swine to devour, were properly buried, and the body 
 of Upufara was carried to the place where his fathers 
 lay in their tombs. 
 
ORO'S TEMPLE OVERTHROWN. 127 
 
 Instead of ending the day in slaughter, Pomare 
 assembled his little army to thank God for their 
 great deliverance. How much had depended upon 
 the battle fought this day. Had Pomare been con- 
 quered, all the Christians would have been cruelly 
 killed or made slaves, and the idol gods would have 
 been honored as in former days. But now G-od was 
 praised by his servants, and even by many who had 
 never before worshipped him, and who joined in the 
 praises of that evening. 
 
 Instead of killing his enemies, Pomare determined 
 to destroy their idols. He sent a band of men to the 
 temple of Oro to overthrow it. Before they set out, 
 he said to them, " Go not to the little islands, where 
 the women and children of the enemy have been 
 sent for safety ; turn not aside to burn houses, nor to 
 destroy groves, but go straight along the highway." 
 The men obeyed. When they arrived at Oro's tem- 
 ple in Taiarabu, they were afraid lest the people 
 should be enraged at an attempt to insult their god, 
 and should attack them ; however, they were not 
 prevented by these fears from acting in a very coura- 
 geous manner. They began by firing into the small 
 house where the idols were kept, saying, ' * Now, ye 
 gods, if ye be gods, and have any power, come forth, 
 and avenge the insults which we offer you." The 
 multitude stood around, astonished both at the bold 
 ness of the men, and at the helplessness of the idols 
 
128 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 The bouse was soon afterwards pulled down, and the 
 gods shot through and through, and cast into the 
 fire. Oro himself was not destroyed ; only his cover- 
 ing and ornaments were thrown into the flames. 
 He was merely a piece of wood rather longer than 
 a man, and about the thickness of a man's leg. This 
 senseless god was carried to Pomare, and laid at his 
 feet. 
 
 And what use do you think the king made of Oro ? 
 He set it up as a post in his kitchen, fixing pegs upon 
 it, on which baskets for food were hung, and after a 
 time he used it as fuel. This was the end of Oro, 
 about whom the Tahitians had fought so fiercely for 
 many years. Thus may all God's enemies perish. 
 
 The people who had fled to the mountains, sent 
 persons secretly in the night, to see whether their 
 wives and children had been hurt. They were as- 
 tonished to hear that they were safe, and that the 
 king and his friends promised to pardon all their ene- 
 mies. At first they could not believe the news. 
 After a few days they ventured to leave the moun- 
 tains ; and when they found that neither their houses 
 nor families had been injured, they readily went to 
 entreat the king's pardon, and to promise obedience 
 for the future. They now saw how good the God 
 was that Pomare worshipped, a God who taught 
 him to be merciful to his enemies. "We had done 
 every thing to offend the king," said they ; " and yet. 
 
THE TRIUMPH OF MERCY. 1Q9 
 
 when lie was able to destroy us, he freely forgave us." 
 They had often heard before that God so loved his 
 enemies, as to give his Son to die for them, but now 
 they believed it. 
 
 As soon as possible after the battle, Pomare sent 
 to inform the missionaries in Eimeo of his success. 
 A man who had been a chief priest and an areoi, 
 was the bearer of the message. The missionaries 
 and their scholars saw the canoe approaching, and 
 hastened to the beach ; but before they could ask a 
 single question, the messenger exclaimed, " Con- 
 quered, conquered by prayer alone ;" and then, 
 with his spear in his hand, sprang upon the shore. 
 
 The missionaries at first could scarcely believe the 
 news for joy, but soon they assembled to render thanks 
 to God, both for delivering them from the heathen, 
 and for overthrowing the idol gods. 
 
 ' ;.'" V ' 
 
 
130 THE NIGHT OF TOIL 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 THE WILDERNESS TURNED INTO A GARDEN. 
 
 IT might naturally be expected that some of the 
 brethren would now remove to Tahiti, to dwell there / 
 and it was their wish to remove, but they were still 
 engaged in building a ship. "When they had begun 
 to build this ship, they could scarcely induce people 
 to hear them ; therefore they had not then so much 
 work to do for souls, as they now had. They had 
 intended to use the ship in going from island to 
 island, both to preach, and to get pearls or pigs, to 
 exchange with English ships, that they might not 
 require so much money from the Christians in Eng- 
 land. They were now sorry that they had ever be- 
 gun it. 
 
 But though the brethren were not able yet to set- 
 tle in Tahiti, they were anxious to visit it, and to 
 behold the wonderful change that God had wrought 
 there. Accordingly, Mr. Nott and Mr. Hay ward 
 went very soon to Tahiti, and travelled round the 
 island, preaching to large congregations on their way. 
 They found the people busy in destroying maraes, 
 and in building little chapels. In these chapels, the 
 natives were accustomed to meet together three 
 times on the Sabbath, and once in the week. As 
 the natives in general were not able to preach, they 
 
POMARE'S PRAYER. 131 
 
 usually only prayed at their meetings, and read parts 
 of the little hooks which had lately heen printed, 
 and which contained passages from Scripture. At 
 these meetings they sometimes read prayers, which 
 they had first written down. Pomare had written a 
 prayer, which he often read himself in the chapels. 
 
 You will no doubt like to see a translation of thia 
 prayer. 
 
 "Jehovah, thou God of our salvation, hear our 
 prayers, pardon thou our sins, and save our souls. 
 
 " Our sins are great, and more in number than the 
 fishes in the sea, and our obstinacy has been very 
 great, and not to be equalled. Turn thou us to thy- 
 self, and enable us to cast off every evil way. Lead 
 us to Jesus Christ, and let our sins be cleansed in 
 his blood. Grant us thy good Spirit to be our sanc- 
 tifier. 
 
 " Save us from hypocrisy. Suffer us not to come 
 to thy house with carelessness, and return to our own 
 houses and commit sin. Unless thou have mercy 
 upon us, we perish. Unless thou save us, unless we 
 are prepared, and made meet for thy habitation in 
 heaven, we are banished to the fire we die : but let 
 us not be banished to that unknown world of fire. 
 Save us through Jesus Christ thy Son, the Prince of 
 life ; yea, let us obtain salvation through him. 
 
 " Bless all the inhabitants of these islands, all tho 
 
132 THE NIGHT OF TOIL 
 
 families thereof ; let every one stretch out his hands 
 unto God, and say, ' Lord, save me ; Lord, save me.' 
 
 " Let all these islands Tahiti, with all the peo- 
 ple of Eimeo, and of Huahine, and of Raiatea, and 
 of the little islands around, partake of thy salvation. 
 Bless Britain, and every country in the world. Let 
 thy word grow quickly in the world, so as to grow 
 faster than evil. 
 
 " Be merciful to us, and bless us, for Jesus Christ's 
 sake. Amen." 
 
 This prayer showed that Pomare had been taught 
 aright what to pray for. 
 
 Mr. Nott and Mr. Hayward found the people very 
 anxious to learn to read. As there were no schools 
 in Tahiti, the people were willing to be taught by 
 any one whom the missionaries had instructed, when 
 they lived in the islands. Many grown up persons 
 might be seen sitting under trees learning to read. 
 Some of the missionaries' former scholars went to 
 the other islands, and taught the inhabitants. The 
 chiefs of these islands sent messages to the brethren, 
 entreating them to come over and preach to them. 
 
 When the missionaries saw and heard these things, 
 they exclaimed, " This is the finger of God. What 
 hath God wrought." 
 
 The king had some time before destroyed his pub- 
 lic idols ; but he now wished to part with his family 
 
THE KING'S FAMILY IDOLS. 133 
 
 idols, that he had always kept in his houses. H* 
 sent ahout twelve of these frightful little images to 
 the missionaries in Eimeo, with a letter, of which I 
 will copy a part. 
 
 " FRIENDS May you be saved by Jehovah, and 
 Jesus Christ our Saviour. This is my speech to you, 
 my friends. 
 
 " I wish you to send these idols to England for the 
 missionary society, that they may know the likeness 
 of the gods that Tahiti worshipped. These were my 
 own idols belonging to my fathers, and my father 
 left them to me when he died. And now, having 
 been made acquainted with the true God, with Je- 
 hovah, HE is MY GOD. When this body of mine 
 shall be dissolved in death, may the Three-One save 
 me. This is my shelter, my close hiding-place, even 
 from the anger of Jehovah. When he looks upon 
 me, I will hide me at the feet of Jesus Christ my 
 Saviour, that I may escape. 
 
 " I rejoice and praise Jehovah that he hath made 
 known his word unto me. I should have gone to 
 destruction, if Jehovah had not interposed. Many 
 have died, and are gone to destruction kings, and 
 common people they died without knowing any 
 thing of the true God ; and now, when it came to 
 the small remainder of the people, Jehovah hath 
 been pleased to make known his word, and we are 
 
134 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 made acquainted with his good word, made acquaint- 
 ed with the deception of the false gods, with all that 
 is evil and false. It was you that taught us, but the 
 knowledge came from Jehovah. It is because of 
 this I rejoice, and I pray to Jehovah that he may 
 increase my abhorrence of every evil way. 
 
 " I am going a journey round Tahiti to acquaint 
 the people with the word of God. The principal 
 idol that has the red feathers is Temeharo ; that is 
 his name. Look you, you may know it by the red 
 feathers. That was my father's own god, and those 
 feathers were given by Lieutenant "Watts. It was 
 my father that set them himself about the idol. If 
 you think proper, you may burn these idols all in 
 the fire ; or, if you like, send them to your own 
 country, that the people there may know Tahiti's 
 foolish gods." 
 
 The missionaries, when they had read this letter, 
 nailed up the images in a wooden case, and soon af- 
 terwards sent them to England, to the directors of 
 the London Missionary Society. 
 
 This summer the brethren made several journeys 
 round the islands of Tahiti and Eimeo. 
 
 I will give you some account of a journey made 
 by Mr. Davies and Mr. Hayward round Tahiti this 
 October, that you may perceive how great a change 
 had taken place in the island. 
 
ANXIETY FOR THE WORD. 135 
 
 The two brethren were accompanied by several 
 canoes from Eimeo, full of men and boys ; for this 
 time the brethren did not travel round the island on 
 foot, but went by water. They landed at every 
 place where there were any houses ; but now they 
 had no need to go from house to house to entreat the 
 people to come and hear them, for the people came 
 of themselves ; and many were not satisfied with the 
 public worship, but followed the brethren to the 
 house at which they lodged, that they might be 
 present at the family worship ; for it was now the 
 custom for most of the families to have prayers both 
 morning and evening, and the brethren usually con- 
 ducted the service, when they were present. In the 
 evening, one of the brethren read a passage from a 
 little book of extracts from the New Testament, and 
 explained it, and then prayed. In the morning, it 
 was often too dark to read when the brethren rose, 
 and in this case they generally asked one of the 
 natives to pray aloud. 
 
 But the natives were not content with family 
 prayers alone. The brethren were delighted, wher- 
 ever they went, to see them seeking retired places 
 among the bushes for private prayer, both morning 
 and evening. 
 
 The natives were so anxious to learn about holy 
 things, that they often kept the brethren awake as 
 they lay in bed, asking them questions, almost till 
 
136 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 morning. It would have been more kind, if they 
 had permitted the weary missionaries to rest ; but it 
 was well that they took delight in good conversation, 
 instead of laughing and talking, as they used to do 
 both night and day. 
 
 On one occasion, a man called Tino, who had for- 
 merly pretended to be a prophet, talked to the breth- 
 ren in the night in a very sensible and pious manner. 
 He observed, that no person ought to be kept back 
 from coming to Christ, because of his wickedness ; 
 " For," said Tino, " I have been the most wicked of 
 men, and yet I am now turned to the true God, and 
 my heart is quite fixed upon him." 
 
 Early in the morning people often came to the 
 brethren with their books, entreating to be allowed 
 to read a little piece to them. 
 
 In every place the brethren found a chapel : some- 
 times it was very small, and many of the people who 
 flocked to hear the brethren, were obliged to stand 
 outside. The chapels, like the houses, were built of 
 posts, placed a little apart, and were thatched with 
 leaves, while the ground was strewed with clean 
 grass. In the middle of one side, a seat for the min- 
 ister was placed, with a small table before it, while 
 rows of benches were provided for the hearers. 
 There were sixty-six of these chapels in the island * 
 some were hardly finished when the brethren arrived. 
 The people assembled for public worship three times 
 
PROGRESS OF THE TRUTH. 137 
 
 on the Sabbath, on Wednesday evening, and in many 
 places they met on the first Monday in the month, 
 to pray for the conversion of the heathen, according 
 to the custom of the missionaries, and of their friends 
 in England. 
 
 The people in general seemed much rejoiced at the 
 change that had taken place. One chief, called Tati, 
 observed, "If God had not sent his word, we should 
 soon all have been destroyed ; for once we were a 
 much larger nation than we are now ; but through 
 killing infants, sacrificing men, and fighting, we were 
 becoming fewer and fewer." 
 
 But though in general the brethren were cheered 
 by the eager attention of the people, they were some 
 times grieved by meeting with careless persons, yet 
 seldom with the bold and scornful, as in former times , 
 for the good example of the chiefs was a check to the 
 ungodly. 
 
 At one place the missionaries found the people 
 very giddy and inattentive at worship. They re- 
 proved them, and said, " "When we saw your little 
 chapel, we were pleased ; but now we see your be- 
 havior, we are disappointed." 
 
 At another place they sent a message to some peo- 
 ple who lived on the other side of some high rocks 
 in Taiarabu, to come to them ; but the men senl 
 word that they could not come, and hoped the breth 
 ren would come to them instead. Accordingly, the 
 
J38 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 brethren, with great difficulty, clambered up the 
 steep rocks ; but when they came into the valley, 
 they were disappointed to find that all the men were 
 gone to get food. They went back again, and preach- 
 ed to some other persons in a chapel near the sea- 
 shore. Afterwards the men who had behaved so ill 
 came in, and said they were sorry they had so little 
 love for the word of God as to lose opportunities of 
 hearing it, especially as it was so seldom preached 
 among them. 
 
 "When the brethren had gone almost round the 
 island, they came to Matavai, and found the king 
 there, living in a small house built on the very spot 
 where their old house once stood. They looked at 
 the trees which they themselves had planted, and 
 found some of them laden with oranges and lemons, 
 though most of the breadfruits were destroyed. The 
 'king treated them very kindly, and the people of the 
 place begged them earnestly to come back and dwell 
 among them again. The brethren were not able 
 yet to grant the request, but they intended to grant 
 it as soon as possible. 
 
 How righteous were God's judgments on the peo- 
 ple of Matavai. They had slighted the word of God 
 when it was preached among them, and had driven 
 away their teachers by their rebellious wars. God 
 had, in judgment, sent " a famine of hearing the 
 words of the Lord," Amos 8 : 11, and "removed 
 
DANGER OF NEGLECT. 139 
 
 their teachers into a corner." Isa. 30 : 20. It is 
 very dangerous to neglect religious advantages. 
 Many children who have been brought up beneath 
 the sound of a faithful minister's voice, have longed 
 in vain to hear such a voice in riper years. Many 
 persons who have lived in godly families, have dis- 
 covered what a blessing they once enjoyed, when 
 they could never enjoy the same again. 
 
140 THE N[GHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI, 
 
 THE BABA. 
 
 ABOUT this time some new missionaries arrived. 
 The ships which brought them touched first at Ta- 
 hiti, where the king was residing. Pomare was 
 much pleased to hear that Mr. Ellis had brought a 
 printing-press with him, and asked him to put it up 
 in Tahiti, and remain there himself. Mr. Ellis, 
 however, told him that he must join his brethren in 
 Eimeo. 
 
 The ship contained a present for Pomare that de- 
 lighted him exceedingly : it was a horse. Pomare 
 went down to see it, in the narrow place where it 
 had been kept, unable to lie down. It was a diffi- 
 cult thing to remove the animal to the shore. Pomare 
 had desired two canoes to come close to the ship to 
 receive it. The horse was then tied with bandages 
 to a part of the ship which jutted out over the sea. 
 While the horse was hanging in the air the bandages 
 gave way, and the poor animal dropped into the sea. 
 Pomare and the natives were much terrified when 
 they saw him disappear beneath the waves. Soon, 
 however, he arose snorting from the water, and began 
 to swim to the shore. The natives plunged into the 
 sea, and seizing the horse, some by the mane and 
 others by the tail, endeavored to hold him, till he 
 
THE ''MAN-CARRYING PIG." 141 
 
 appeared in danger of being drowned. In vain the 
 king raised his voice to desire the people to leave the 
 animal alone ; his voice was lost in the cries of the 
 swimmers. At length the horse reached the beach 
 in safety. The natives who were assembled there 
 immediately fled in alarm, and climbed the trees^ or 
 hid themselves behind the rocks and bushes. One 
 of the English sailors who was on shore, went up to 
 the horse, and took hold of his halter. The natives 
 then returned from their hiding-places, and gazed 
 at him with wonder. No horse had ever been seen 
 in Tahiti, except one that had been left there by 
 Captain Cook forty years before ; but few of the 
 people could remember a circumstance that occurred 
 BO long ago. The horse was placed in a shed that 
 night. The next morning the captain brought a 
 bridle and saddle as a present for Pomare. Pomare 
 requested him to put them, on the horse, and to ride 
 upon his back. The natives were delighted when 
 they saw the horse trotting and cantering on the 
 beach, and they called it " land-running pig," and 
 " man-carrying pig." Not one, I believe, would 
 have dared to mount it himself. 
 
 On the Sabbath Mr. Ellis visited some of the natives 
 in their dwellings, between morning and afternoon 
 service. He found them reading out of their little 
 books with their families, and talking with them 
 upon the things they read of. 
 
142 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Mr. Ellis was much pleased to observe how care- 
 fully they kept the Sabbath, not even preparing 
 their food upon that day. On other days they were 
 much more industrious than they once had been, for 
 they had now left off the foolish games they formerly 
 delighted in. Grown up people no longer wasted 
 their time in playing at ball, or shooting at a mark, 
 or still worse, in wrestling, boxing, and cock-fighting, 
 but employed themselves in the useful labors of 
 building and planting. Little gardens of taro, which 
 resembles a potato, surrounded many of the dwell- 
 ings. The greatest ornament of these gardens was 
 a little house for secret prayer, which showed that 
 the owners were looking for a better inheritance. 
 
 The brethren now consulted together respecting 
 the place where they should set up the printing- 
 press. They resolved to remove it to the other side 
 of Eimeo, and agreed that Mr. Ellis, with Mr. Davies 
 and Mr. Cook, should go and live there. By this 
 means the people at the other side of Eimeo would 
 have an opportunity of receiving instruction. 
 
 Pomare sent the brethren a letter, desiring them 
 to inform him as soon as the printing-house was fin- 
 ished, that he might come to see the printing. How* 
 ever, he did not wait till that time, but paid them a 
 visit, bringing with him a quantity of boards for the 
 brethren. His mind seemed much occupied with 
 thoughts of drawing, and he looked with pleasure at 
 
THE PRINTING-HOUSE. 143 
 
 some portraits of ministers in a magazine, and also 
 at some pictures of beasts and birds. He did not, 
 however, steal any, as he had once stolen the picture 
 of Adam and Eve from Mr. Broomhall's Bible. 
 
 The brethren, as well as the natives, employed 
 themselves in building the new houses. They paved 
 the floor of the printing-house with stones. Whence 
 do you think they procured these stones ? From a 
 neighboring marae, which had contained pieces of 
 pavement, on which the worshippers had knelt before 
 the altars. These polished stones were dug up and 
 placed where God's word was to be printed. Thus 
 Satan was robbed, and God was honored. 
 
 In the beginning of June the printing-house was 
 finished. Its sides were composed of boards : and 
 it had two glass windows, which had been brought 
 from England, and which, perhaps, were the first 
 ever seen in the islands. 
 
 A message was now sent to inform the king that 
 all was ready for printing. He soon arrived, accom- 
 panied by a few favorite chiefs, and a multitude of 
 people. The first book that was to be printed was 
 the J3a-ba, or spelling-book ; for though some hun- 
 dreds had once been printed, both in England and at 
 Port Jackson, there were not nearly enough in the 
 islands. 
 
 Pomare looked with delight at the leaden letters, 
 or types, placed in divisions. Mr. Ellis asked him 
 
144 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 whether he would like to set them himself. Pomare 
 gladly consented to begin the work. As the alphabet 
 was to be printed on the first page of the Baba, it 
 was easy for Pomare to take a large letter out of 
 each division, and set it in its place. He next placed 
 the small letters, and then a few short words, and 
 thus finished setting the first page of the spelling- 
 book. But as it was necessary that many pages 
 should be prepared before the press could be used, 
 Pomare was obliged to wait about a fortnight be- 
 fore he could have the pleasure of striking off the 
 first sheet. 
 
 At last he came, attended by two favorite chiefs, 
 and followed by a crowd of curious, eager people. 
 The king and his chiefs made their way through the 
 people that stood round the door, and entered the 
 printing-house. The door was then closed, and the 
 window next the sea darkened, for the king did not 
 wish to be seen, and the people did not behave with 
 the politeness which Christian children, are taught to 
 show, not knowing it was rude to peep in at windows. 
 
 The king playfully told his companions not to laugh 
 at him, if he should not print in the right manner. 
 Mr. Ellis then put in his hand a soft ball dipped in 
 ink, and told him to strike it upon the leaden letters. 
 He then placed a sheet of clean paper upon the let- 
 ters, and directed the king to turn the handle of the 
 press. When Pomare had turned it, the paper was 
 
DESIRE FOR SPELLING-BOOKS. 145 
 
 removed from beneath, the press ; the king and his 
 friends immediately rushed forwards to see what ef- 
 fect had been produced. "When they beheld the large 
 and black letters on the paper, they cried out together 
 with wonder and delight. The sheet was then shown 
 to the crowd outside, who immediately raised a gen- 
 eral shout of joy. The king printed two more sheets, 
 and then continued till sunset watching the brethren 
 at the work. When he returned to his tent, he took 
 with him the sheets he had printed. 
 
 Almost every day, as he passed the printing-house, 
 on his way to his favorite bathing-place, he called in 
 to watch the printing for a short time. The people 
 also were continually peeping in at the windows, and 
 through the crevices of the walls, often exclaiming, 
 "0 Britain, land of skill !" 
 
 In less than a month the spelling-books were 
 printed off, and distributed among the people. The 
 natives show r ed great anxiety to obtain these little 
 books. The missionaries received a number of plan- 
 tain leaves rolled up, from Tahiti ; when they un- 
 rolled them, they found each contained a request for 
 spelling-books written on the leaves. The people, 
 generally, used plantain leaves instead of paper to 
 write notes upon; but as the leaves soon withered, 
 they were only fit for notes. 
 
 The brethren knew that the people were not only 
 desirous to possess books, but that they longed to 
 
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146 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 read the contents ; for many of them had copied their 
 neighbors' books on pieces of cloth or bark, having 
 used a reed for a pen, and purple juice for ink. They 
 were also very anxious to know the meaning of what 
 they read, in their little books of extracts from the Bi- 
 ble ; and whenever the brethren entered their houses, 
 the natives had generally some questions to ask them, 
 which the brethren were delighted to answer. 
 
 How pleasant it would be if tracts and good books, 
 and especially the Bible, were valued as much among 
 us. But the full soul loatheth the honeycomb. We 
 have so many books, and have had them so long, that 
 we are tempted to forget what precious gifts they are. 
 
 Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Crook made covers for the 
 spelling-books, and sold the covers to the natives in 
 exchange for food. Two roots of taro, or a bunch 01 
 breadfruit, were the price of a cover. The spelling- 
 books had not been sold, for fear of discouraging the 
 people from learning to read. 
 
 Amongst the persons who received spelling-books 
 was a company of poor strangers, who had come 
 some time before to Tahiti, and who had followed 
 Pomare to Eimeo. They came from the Pearl Isl- 
 ands, which were quite flat, and which produced 
 nothing but cocoa-nuts, and they themselves were 
 more rude in their manners than the Tahitians. They 
 had been very wicked, and had almost destroyed 
 their nation by their wars. But now they had cast 
 
MISSIONARIES MADE GLAD. 147 
 
 away their idols, and worshipped the true God, and 
 had built three chapels in one of their islands. No 
 Englishman had instructed them, but one of their 
 own countrymen, who had learned to read in Tahiti, 
 had gone back to his native country, and taught his 
 people. These poor strangers were longing for books 
 and more teachers. Pomare had been very kind to 
 them, and had offered to let them live in Tahiti, but 
 they were anxious to return to their native islands, as 
 soon as they had procured the books they wanted. 
 As they were not satisfied with spelling-books alone, 
 many of them continued to live among Pomare' s tents, 
 and often visited the printing-house, and attended 
 the school and chapel. 
 
 It gladdened the missionaries' hearts to see the 
 knowledge of God spreading from isle to isle, and 
 those who were accustomed to do evil, learning to 
 do good ; which is as wonderful, as for the leopard 
 to change his spots, and the black man to become 
 white ; but things that are impossible with u ni, are 
 possible with God. 
 
148 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 QUESTIONS THE NATIVES ASKED ABOUT RELIGION. 
 
 WHEN Mr. Ellis had finished the spelling-books, he 
 printed some catechisms, and then some little books 
 containing a collection of texts. He had taught two 
 natives how to help him at the press, and he spent 
 eight or ten hours every day in the work so anxious 
 was he to supply the people with books. 
 
 Mrs. Ellis opened a school, in which she taught 
 Mr. Crook's six girls to work at their needle, and any 
 native girls who desired to learn. 
 
 The brethren, on their first arrival, had planted 
 flowers and vegetables in their gardens. The king 
 was much struck with the sunflowers in Mr. Ellis' 
 garden, having never seen any before, and he asked 
 for some ; Mr. Ellis, however, refused him, because 
 he himself wanted the flowers for seed. The king 
 then said the queen and her sister each wished for 
 one. Mr. Ellis could not deny their request, and 
 sent them one apiece. They were much delighted, 
 and placed them as ornaments in their hair. This 
 little anecdote shows you that Pomare and his family 
 had not left off their old habits of begging. 
 
 In the course of the summer a man died, of whom 
 you have already heard some interesting particulars, 
 fou remember Farefau, VMO once threw the red 
 
DEATH OF FAREFAU. 149 
 
 feathers into the oven. He had continued to serve 
 Christ ever since that time. He had often climbed 
 the steepest rocks and mountains of Tahiti, to teach 
 the people who lived at a distance from places oi 
 instruction. A few weeks before his death, he was 
 brought to Eimeo in a deep decline ; yet it was not 
 supposed that he was so near his end. The day be- 
 fore he died, he told several people that his departure 
 was at hand, but that he had no fears, for his mind 
 was fixed on Jesus Christ, the Saviour of sinners, 
 who filled his soul with joy and peace. 
 
 The brethren had a very interesting meeting every 
 Monday evening for conversing with the natives upon 
 religious subjects. As I suppose you would like to 
 hear what remarks the natives made on these occa- 
 sions, and what questions they asked, I will relate 9 
 few of them. 
 
 They often spoke of the sermon they had heard on 
 the day before. They once seemed alarmed after 
 having heard Mr. Davies preach upon the character 
 of Balaam. An old man afterwards asked, " What 
 is the difference between a knowledge of G-od in the 
 head, and a belief from the heart?" 
 
 Sometimes they asked questions about the doctrinesr 
 of Scripture. On.ce a man asked, "May a man hope 
 ever to be free from evil thoughts, while he lives?" 
 The brethren told him, that as long as we lived, we 
 had an evil nature to fight against, and an enemy to 
 
150 THE NIGHT OF TOIL 
 
 tempt us; but that if we loved Christ, we should 
 strive against sin, and grow more and more holy. 
 Another time, a person inquired whether the wick- 
 ed would ever be released from hell, and admitted 
 into heaven. The brethren answered, that as tho 
 wicked would never repent in hell, they could never 
 be released. 
 
 Another man asked why the wicked angels fell. 
 The brethren told them that it was pride that made 
 them fall. But when the natives inquired how pride 
 came into heaven, the brethren could give them no an- 
 swer, because the Bible does not explain this mystery. 
 
 Most of the questions asked at these meetings were 
 about what things were right, or wrong to do. These 
 questions showed that the natives were anxious to 
 please God. 
 
 A person inquired whether it was right, that, at 
 prayer-meetings, the chiefs should be asked to pray, 
 while poor men, perhaps more pious than they, were 
 not encouraged to take a part. The brethren said 
 that it was wrong to show this respect of persons in 
 religious meetings, though, on other occasions, respect 
 should be shown to the chiefs. 
 
 Another time it was asked, whether a woman 
 might lead family prayers when her husband was 
 absent, and no other man present who could take 
 his place. The brethren replied, that it would be 
 right for a woman in that case to lead the service. 
 
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 Once a man asked, whether he ought to change 
 his name, as he had been an areoi, and very wicked. 
 The brethren said, that if his heart was changed, his 
 name was of no consequence. 
 
 Another time, a man asked whether the sick ought 
 to be brought to the chapel to be prayed for. The 
 brethren told him that it was useless to bring the 
 sick to any particular place, as God heard prayer 
 everywhere. 
 
 Sometimes questions about keeping the Sabbath 
 were asked. It was inquired whether, when a per- 
 son was taken very ill, his friends might be sent for 
 on the Sabbath, though they lived at a great dis- 
 tance ; and whether even a canoe might be sent to 
 fetch them from other islands. The brethren said 
 that it would be right to do so ; for that whatever 
 was an act of mercy, and necessary for the welfare 
 of man, might be done on the Sabbath-day. 
 
 Two little anecdotes, which were related at these 
 meetings, will show you how fearful the people were 
 of breaking the Sabbath. Once two canoes were 
 lying on the beach ; the sea, coming up higher than 
 usual, washed them from the shore; the owner of 
 the canoes saw them tossing upon the waves, but 
 would not go into the sea and pull them to land, be- 
 cause it was the Sabbath. In consequence, they 
 were dashed to pieces among the rocks. 
 
 Another time a man saw a pig in his taro garden ; 
 
152 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 ho perceived that the fence was broken, and V st 
 therefore it would be of no use to drive the pig <mt 
 unless he mended the fence, which he was afraid to 
 do, because it was the Sabbath-day. The men who 
 related these anecdotes wished to know whether 
 'they had acted right. The brethren told them that 
 they were mistaken, though they were right not to 
 do what they thought was wrong. It is written in 
 the Scripture, "Whatsoever is not of faith, is sin." 
 Rom. 14 : 23. We should, therefore, like these na- 
 tives, take great pains to find out what is wrong, 
 and what is right ; for even if an action is not wrong, 
 we must not do it while we think it is wrong. 
 
 There were some godly parents who were grieved 
 by the conduct of their wicked, disobedient children, 
 and who asked the brethren's advice respecting their 
 treatment of them. The brethren told them not to 
 send these young people away from their homes, but 
 to endeavor by kindness to melt their hearts, and 
 continually to beseech the Lord to convert them. 
 
 As there were now sixteen missionaries in Eimeo, 
 it was desirable that all should not remain in that 
 island. Yet it was thought necessary that the ship, 
 still on the stocks, should first be finished, and the 
 books in the press published. The ship which the 
 brethren had been building for four years, was now 
 ready to be launched ; but the masts and sails were 
 not yet added to it. 
 
LAUNCHING OF THE SHIP. 153 
 
 On December 7, the launching of the ship took 
 place in the presence of the king, the missionaries, 
 and vast crowds of people. The natives pulled it by 
 ropes into the sea, amidst the shouts of the multitude. 
 
 Pomare had chosen it should be called the Haweis, 
 in honor of Dr; Haweis, one of the ministers who had 
 taken so much trouble to send out the first missiona- 
 ries to Tahiti. It is pleasing to find that Pomare 
 felt grateful to this benefactor, though he had never 
 seen him. 
 
 May not Pomare's gratitude to Dr. Haweis remind 
 us how we ought to love One whom we have never 
 seen, and who has been kinder to us than any earthly 
 benefactor could be ? 
 
 Pomare sometimes wrote letters to Dr. Haweis, 
 who was still living. I will show you part of one 
 that he wrote a short time before the ship was 
 launched. 
 
 "DEAR FRIEND May you be blessed, and your 
 family, with the salvation of Jehovah the true God. 
 
 " I was startled at receiving your letter, for I 
 thought you had been taken away by our Lord. The 
 small watch that you sent me is in my hands, and 
 remains as a keepsake from you, dear friend. 
 
 " Your name has been given by me to the vessel 
 which has been built here. I was urgent about it, 
 for some said it should have another name, but I 
 
154 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 said, ' No ; the name must be the Haweis.' The 
 reason I was so urgent about it was, because you 
 were so very attentive to us of Tahiti, yea, indeed, 
 all of you ; for the Lord put the thought into your 
 minds, to send messengers here to Tahiti, that they 
 might sound the trumpet, and make known the way 
 of life. 
 
 "I send you two little fans, which the royal family 
 of these countries were accustomed to fan themselves 
 with. When the day of the feast arrived, and the 
 king was prayed for, those were the fans that used to 
 fan away the flies. 
 
 " What am I to do with the little pearl box which 
 was in the little parcel you sent me ? Had it been 
 directed to me, it would have been right, but there 
 is another name on it, that of the queen of Lattakoo ; 
 that is the reason I inform you of it. I have sent 
 back the little pearl box to Mr. Marsden at Port 
 Jackson, that he may return it to you. 
 
 " If you write to me again, I shall be glad. If it 
 be agreeable, send me three books : one very large 
 Bible, one to carry about, very small, and one book 
 of geography. If it be not agreeable, very well. Do 
 not think evil of me, dear friend, for the small request 
 that I make at the end of my letter. 
 
 "May you be blessed by Jesus Christ, the true 
 King of salvation, by whom we must all be saved. 
 
 "POMARE," 
 
RETURN TO TAHITI. 155 
 
 One of the brethren removed almost immediately 
 . to Mat avai, in Tahiti, where the missionaries had at 
 first resided. This was Mr. Wilson, who took with 
 him his wife and four little children. It was a joy- 
 ful day to many of the people in Tahiti, when they 
 again saw the face of a teacher, come to live among 
 them; for nine years had passed away since the 
 brethren had fled from their island. No part of Ta- 
 hiti was so ungodly as Matavai, on account of the 
 number of wicked sailors that visited it in the Eng- 
 lish ships, and sold spirits, and set a bad example 
 Yet, even here, there were a few that really loved 
 God. I will give you an instance of one. After the 
 Monday evening meeting, a man once followed Mr. 
 Wilson to his house, and said to him, " Is it right for 
 people to weep, when they go to pray in the bushes ? 
 for I cannot help weeping when I pray. Do othre 
 people weep ?" 
 
 Mr. Wilson replied, " Why do you weep ?" 
 " It is," said the man, " the thought of God's great 
 goodness to me, of the love of Christ in dying for 
 sinners, and of the return that I have made, only bad 
 behavior, that makes me weep. ' ' Mr. Wilson rejoiced 
 over this penitent sinner, well knowing how accepta- 
 ble his tears were to Him who permitted his feet to 
 be washed with the tears of humble, grateful love. 
 
156 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 WHAT THE NATIVES VALUED ABOVE ALL THINGS ELSE. 
 
 THE natives were now looking forward to receiv- 
 ing a more precious book than any they had yet 
 obtained. Though this book would not contain the 
 whole of the Bible, but only the gospel of Luke, yet 
 the idea of possessing it filled the natives with such 
 delight, that many could not sleep for joy. 
 
 For many years past, Mr. Nott had been employed 
 in translating the gospel of Luke into Tahitian, and 
 Pomare had been very useful in assisting him, and 
 copying it out for him. 
 
 The six missionaries lately arrived had brought 
 with them an immense quantity of paper, so that 
 Mr. Ellis determined to print three thousand copies 
 of Luke ; yet these he feared would not be enough 
 to supply all who could read. 
 
 Hitherto the brethren had given away the little 
 books they had printed ; they now agreed to sell the 
 book of Luke, because with the price they might buy 
 more paper, and print more books. The price they 
 fixed on was three gallons of cocoa-nut oil. Some 
 months before the books were ready, they advised the 
 natives to begin to prepare the oil.^ 
 
 * This was the manner of preparing the oil. The kernel 
 
BINDING THE BOOKS. 157 
 
 While the book was in press, the natives who vis- 
 ited the printing-house, read different parts of it with 
 great interest, and asked so many questions about 
 what they read, that Mr. Ellis was often obliged to 
 stop printing to explain it to them. Not only did 
 visitors generally fill the printing-house, but they even 
 thronged the windows, and those who could not get 
 near in any other way, sat upon the top of a high 
 fence placed around the house, or climbed upon the 
 backs of their companions. 
 
 When the books were nearly finished, the crowds 
 increased. Numbers came from distant parts, so that 
 the sea-shore was covered with canoes, and the land 
 dotted with tents. 
 
 The missionaries, however, did not like to distribute 
 the books, till they were bound. At first they used 
 mill-board and sheep-skins from England, and when 
 these were exhausted, they were obliged to make 
 covers of native cloth, covered with old newspapers, 
 dyed with purple juice. They bound the book in- 
 tended for the king in a more handsome manner, even 
 in red morocco. 
 
 At last the people grew so impatient, that the 
 brethren gave up binding the books. They were 
 pleased to find that the natives did not suffer the 
 precious books to remain without covers. The lives 
 
 of the cocoa-nut was scraped, placed in a trouga, and exposed 
 to the sun, when the heat caused oil to flow from it. 
 
158 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 of dogs, cats, and goats, were now very unsafe, for 
 the natives caught them for the sake of their skins ; 
 they then scraped, pressed, and dried the skins in the 
 sun, to prepare them for covers. The brethren were 
 amused to see the trees all round the printing-house, 
 thickly hung with skins stretched on wooden frames. 
 Meanwhile the people were careful not to injure their 
 books, and as they could not refrain from reading them, 
 they placed them between thin pieces of boards, till 
 the skins were ready. They were not even satisfied 
 when they had bound them, but carried them about 
 either in bags or baskets. They scarcely knew what 
 to do with them when they left their houses for a 
 short time, as they were afraid that they should hurt 
 their treasures, if they took them with them, and 
 that, if they left them at home, some accident would 
 occur in their absence. 
 
 I will mention one instance of the anxiety that the 
 natives showed to obtain the books, that afterwards 
 they preserved so carefully. 
 
 One evening, five men from Tahiti landed at Afa- 
 reaitu, and hastened to Mr. Ellis' dwelling. Mr. 
 Ellis met them at the door, and asked them what 
 they wanted. 
 
 They replied altogether, " The word of Luke," and 
 then showed their bamboos of cocoa-nut oil.^ 
 
 * A bamboo is a hollow stick. It is not hollow throughout, 
 but is divided by notches at short distances. The natives cut 
 
ANXIOUS DESIRE FOR BOOKS. 150 
 
 Mr. Ellis told them that he had no books ready 
 that night, but that if they would come the next day, 
 he would give them as many as they wanted, and he 
 advised them to go and lodge with some friend in the 
 village. Then, as it was almost dark, he wished 
 them good night, and went into his house. When 
 the sun rose, Mr. Ellis looked out of his window, and 
 was surprised to see these men lying on the ground 
 outside his house, their only bed being some platted 
 cocoa-nut leaves, and their only covering the cloth 
 they usually wore over their shoulders. Mr. Ellis 
 went out, and said, " Have you been here all night ?" 
 
 They said that they had. 
 
 He next inquired, " Why did you not go to some 
 house to lodge ?" 
 
 "We were afraid," replied the men, "lest, if we 
 had gone away, some one might have come before 
 morning, and have bought all the books that you had 
 to spare, so that we should have been obliged to 
 return without any. As soon as you left us last 
 night, we determined not to leave the place till we 
 had procured the books." 
 
 This answer surprised and delighted Mr. Ellis. 
 He called the men into the printing-office, put the 
 loose sheets of the books together, as quickly as he 
 could, and gave each of the men an unbound copy 
 
 the bamboos at the notches, and used each piece as a bottle. 
 Each piece contains nearly three quarts. 
 
160 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 of Luke's Gospel. They then requested to have two 
 more copies for a mother and a sister. These books 
 were also granted, and the cocoa-nut oil was received 
 as the price. Then each of the men wrapped up his 
 book in a piece of white cloth of bark, put it in his 
 bosom, and set sail for Tahiti, without having either 
 eaten or drunk, or visited any person during his stay 
 at Eimeo. 
 
 Probably many of the people, who appeared to love 
 the word of God, cared more for having a book of 
 their own, than for knowing God's will ; but others 
 certainly did love it because it was able to save their 
 souls through faith in Christ. The word of Luke 
 was now read in numerous families, both at morning 
 and evening prayers. Often in the day, persons might 
 be seen sitting in a circle under the shade of a tree, 
 listening to some native, who was reading the Gospel 
 aloud. 
 
 The missionaries now intended very soon to sep- 
 arate from each other, and to dwell in different 
 islands ; but, before they took this step, they exe- 
 cuted a new plan in Eimeo. They thought that as 
 the natives knew how precious the Gospel was, they 
 would be willing to give some of their property to 
 help to send it to heathen lands. Therefore, the 
 brethren determined to form a Missionary Society in 
 Eimeo. They first proposed the plan to the king, 
 who approved of it, and who soon afterwards said to 
 
PLAN OF A. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 161 
 
 one of his pious chiefs, named A-u-na, " Do you think 
 you could collect five bamboo-canes of cocoa-nut oil in 
 a year?" 
 
 He answered, "Yes." 
 
 " Do you think you could spare so much, for send- 
 ing the word of God to the heathen ?" 
 
 Again A-u-na replied, " Yes." 
 
 "Do you think," continued Pomare, "that those 
 who value the Gospel in this land, would think it a 
 great labor to collect so much oil every year ?" 
 
 " No," replied A-u-na, " I do not think they would." 
 
 " Then," said the king, " think about it, and let us 
 join together in a plan for this purpose." 
 
 The king and chiefs consulted privately with the 
 missionaries, and arranged all the rules of the new 
 society. 
 
 On May 13th, a great meeting was held at Pape- 
 toai, in Eimeo. All the missionaries assembled at 
 the place, and numbers of natives came over from 
 Tahiti. The day was begun by a prayer-meeting 
 Among the natives at sunrise, and by another among 
 the brethren. It was arranged that the service was 
 to begin in the chapel at three o'clock ; but, long 
 before that hour, the place was so crowded that the 
 people agreed to remove to a grove of cocoa-nut trees 
 at a short distance. 
 
 When the brethren entered this grove, they found 
 the natives already assembled there, and they were 
 
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162 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 much struck with the beauty of the scene. The 
 grove was situated close to the sea, and at the foot 
 of steep rocks and high mountains. Shells and white 
 coral were strewed upon the beach ; various kinds 
 of lovely plants hung from the jutting rocks, while 
 others twined round the stems of the trees, and 
 adorned even the branches with festoons of pink blos- 
 soms. The trees were so tall, and covered with such 
 large and numerous leaves, that their branches 
 formed a ceiling at a great height above the people, 
 and shaded them entirely from the sun. Multitudes, 
 in their native dresses, were seated on the thick grass 
 beneath. 
 
 A wooden stand was prepared for Mr. Nott, close 
 to the trunk of one of the tall trees. The king was 
 seated in an arm-chair before him, and was dressed 
 in a yellow tiputa, with a scarlet flower painted on 
 the part that covered his breast. The queen and 
 her ladies, and many chiefs, were seated near the 
 king. 
 
 How delightful it was to think that these people 
 were assembled, not for war, nor for bloody sacrifices, 
 not for rioting, nor immoderate feasting, as in times 
 past, but to assist in sending the word of God to poor 
 ignorant heathen. 
 
 The service began with singing and prayer ; then 
 Mr. Nott preached from the words, " Understande'st 
 thou what thou readest ?" and the answer of the 
 
THE KING'S SPEECH. 163 
 
 Ethiopian, " How can I, except some man should 
 guide me?" Acts 8 : 30, 31. 
 
 When the sermon was finished, Pomare addressed 
 his people. He reminded them of their former state, 
 when their choicest fish and fruits were offered to 
 their idols, and when even men were sacrificed. He 
 then described the happiness they now enjoyed 
 through the Gospel, and proposed giving their prop- 
 erty to help to send it to other lands. He declared, 
 he wished only those to give who gave willingly ; 
 and that, as he supposed those who did not love the 
 Gospel themselves, would not give willingly, he de- 
 sired they should not be forced to give, or even 
 called mean and avaricious because they did not 
 give. Pomare concluded his speech by requesting 
 that those who wished a Missionary Society to be 
 formed, would hold up their hands. Hundreds of 
 dark-colored arms were in one moment lifted up 
 towards heaven. Cheering sight to the brethren, 
 who remembered how lately those hands had been 
 used in executing wicked deeds ! 
 
 As the sun hid its head beneath the distant waves 
 of the sea, the king arose from his chair, and the 
 people returned rejoicing to their houses ; *but none 
 rejoiced as those did who had sown the good seed 
 that was now springing up in many hearts. 
 
 Mr. Ellis had not finished distributing the Gospel 
 of Luke at the time this meeting was held, therefore 
 
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164 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 he returned with some of his "brethren to Afareaitu 
 for a short time. 
 
 But soon the time came when the brethren might 
 go and reside in different islands. The ship Haweis 
 \vas now rigged, and was ready to convey them to 
 their new stations. 
 
 Mr. Ellis determined to leave Eimeo, and to go to 
 the island of Huahine. Nine years before, the mis- 
 sionaries had lived in that island for a year, and 
 since that time the inhabitants had cast away their 
 idols, and had built many chapels. 
 
 Mr. Ellis left Eimeo with great regret. He had 
 been much pleased with the natives while he lived 
 there. They had behaved with so much honesty, 
 that though he had no bolt nor lock upon his door, 
 not an article had been stolen. You have not for- 
 gotten their former thievish disposition, but now they 
 stole no more. 
 
THE CHAPEL AT PAPAO. 165 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 THE CHAPEL WITH THREE PULPITS. 
 
 FOR some time past Pomare had been building a 
 very large and handsome chapel in Tahiti, at a place 
 called Pa-pa-o, which was only four miles from Ma- 
 tavai. 
 
 The missionaries had advised the king not to build 
 so immense a chapel, as it would be of less use than 
 a smaller one ; but Pomare had replied, that king 
 Solomon once built a very magnificent temple, and 
 that he wished to imitate him. His immense chapel 
 was finished in the spring of 1819. It contained 
 one hundred and thirty-three windows and twenty- 
 nine doors. It was seven hundred and twelve feet 
 long, and fifty-four feet wide. 
 
 There is not a church of so great a length.* As 
 it was impossible that a preacher could speak loud 
 enough to be h'eard to the end of the chapel during 
 a whole sermon, three pulpits were placed in it. 
 The ceiling was covered with fine matting, and the 
 floor with dried grass ; and the building was filled 
 with benches and pews. The most remarkable thing 
 in the chapel was a stream of water, that ran in a 
 
 * St. Paul's church in London is 500 feet in length, and 180 
 in breadth. 
 
166 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 slanting direction through it. The stream had not 
 been observed till after the chapel had been begun. 
 The builders might have tried to turn the course of 
 this stream, which flowed from the mountains into 
 the sea, but then, perhaps, the water would have 
 overflowed ; therefore they suffered it to pass through 
 the chapel. I think those who sat near it must have 
 been reminded by the sight of this living stream, of 
 the living water that Jesus gives to those who ask 
 him, and of the crystal river that makes glad the 
 city of God. 
 
 The chapel was called the Royal Mission Chapel. 
 Great crowds of people flocked from all the islands 
 to be present at the first service performed in it in 
 May. The tents of the visitors lined the shore for 
 four miles. 
 
 The day when the chapel was opened, the king and 
 royal family were present. A minister stood in each 
 of the pulpits. Mr. Darling, who was in the middle 
 pulpit, gave out a hymn in a voice loud enough for 
 all to hear, and the six thousand people who filled 
 the chapel joined in singing it. Then each minister 
 read Luke 14 .to the people around him, and after- 
 wards prayed. Though three voices were raised at 
 once, yet from the great size of the place, they did* 
 not interfere with each other. The three sermons 
 began at the same time, and ended very nearly 
 together. The congregation then joined in singing 
 
PROCLAMATION OF THE LAWS. 167 
 
 a hymn, and the ministers concluded the service with 
 prayer. Thus ended this joyful meeting. 
 
 The next day the congregation assembled again to 
 hear three sermons for the Missionary Society. In 
 the afternoon they heard three more. A great many 
 subscriptions had already been made to the Society. 
 The king had put down his name as a subscriber of 
 eight hogs a year. 
 
 The day following, which was Thursday, the laws 
 were publicly given to the people. The king had 
 made the laws some time before, with the assistance 
 of his chiefs and the advice of the missionaries, and 
 had written them out with his own hand. There 
 were eighteen laws. Amongst them were laws 
 against murder, rebellion, theft, and Sabbath-break- 
 ing. 
 
 Murderers and rebels alone were to be punished 
 with death. Thieves were only to be obliged to re- 
 store four times the amount of property they had 
 taken. 
 
 On the day when the laws were proclaimed, the 
 people assembled in the chapel, and Pomare asked 
 Mr. Crook to begin with prayer and reading. Then 
 Pomare stood in the middle pulpit, and after looking 
 joyfully round upon his subjects, spoke to one of his 
 chiefs named Tati, saying, " Tati, what is your de- 
 sire ? What can I do for you ?" 
 
 Tati, who sat nearly opposite the pulpit, arose and 
 
168 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 said, " Those are what we want the papers you 
 hold in your hand the laws. Give them to us, 
 that we may hold them in our hands, that we may 
 regard them, and do what is right." 
 
 The king then said in an affectionate manner to 
 another very pious chief, " Utami, what is your de- 
 sire ?" He replied, " One thing only is desired by us 
 all that which Tati has said the laws which you 
 hold in* your, hand." The king then spoke to the 
 other chiefs in the same manner. He next read 
 aloud the eighteen laws, and explained several parts 
 of them. After reading each law, the king said to 
 the chiefs, "Do you agree to this law?" and the 
 chiefs replied after each, "We heartily agree to it." 
 The king next asked the people after each law, if 
 they agreed to it to lift up their right hands. This 
 was done in an instant, and caused a rushing noise 
 to be heard, so vast was the number of arms in a 
 moment lifted up. "When the king came to the law 
 against rebellion, he seemed almost inclined to pass 
 it over, as many who had rebelled against him were 
 present. Yet when he had read the law, Tati, who 
 had been a ringleader among the rebels, not satis- 
 fied with holding up his hand as usual, arose, hold- 
 ing up both hands, and called upon the people to do 
 the same. This was an instance of the change that 
 the Gospel had made in many a proud, rebellious 
 heart. 
 
HAPPY EVENTS. 169 
 
 On the next Sabbath, the most interesting of all 
 the meetings on this occasion was held. Pomare, 
 who long since was ready to be enrolled as the first 
 convert from heathenism, had lately shown a strong 
 desire to devote himself to God, and had received 
 much instruction from the brethren. Three ser- 
 mons were preached that morning, at the close of 
 which the king solemnly professed his faith in a cru- 
 cified Redeemer. The brethren, who had long watch- 
 ed over his soul, felt much moved on this solemn 
 occasion. Mr. Bicknell, in a very feeling manner, 
 entreated him to walk worthy of the profession he 
 had made, remembering, that as he held the high 
 office of a king, the eyes of men, as well as those of 
 God and angels, were fixed upon him. 
 
 Mr. Henry then exhorted the people to follow the 
 example of the king, and give themselves to the 
 Lord. After singing and prayer, the king shook 
 hands affectionately with all the brethren. 
 
 We have thus related the events of the happy 
 week when the Royal Mission Chapel first was 
 opened. how different were these assemblies 
 from those feasts at which Pomare and his father 
 had often distributed the bleeding limbs of men 
 among the chiefs, as offerings to the gods ! The rest 
 of the year was full of happy events,, 
 
 As all the people preferred hearing the mission- 
 aries preach to hearing the natives, they came from 
 
170 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 a great distance to the chapels where missionaries 
 preached. Therefore there was service no longer in 
 the little chapels, which were either suffered to fall 
 into decay, or used as school-houses. Many natives 
 came and lived near the different stations of the 
 brethren, and those who had lands at a distance, and 
 could not live near them, assembled on Saturday 
 afternoon in their canoes, and set up their tents on 
 the beach. 
 
 It was delightful to see the people preparing their 
 food on Saturday, which was called " food-day," in 
 consequence. They lighted fires, at which they 
 boiled their puddings of bananas, and breadfruit, 
 and cocoa-nut milk. Men might be seen coming 
 from the stream with vessels of water in their hands, 
 for washing their hands on the Sabbath, and women 
 with bundles of breadtree leaves for plates. In 
 each house little baskets of food were hung up on 
 the pegs of the great posts, and the best clothes were 
 put out ready to wear. The natives spent Saturday 
 evening in singing, reading, and praying in their 
 houses. 
 
 On the Sabbath-day no tree was climbed, and no 
 fire was lighted ; but the day was devoted to the 
 care of the soul. At sunrise the people prayed alone, 
 as usual, either among the bushes, or in the little 
 prayer-houses, or in some retired corner of their own. 
 At seven they assembled in the chapel for prayer 
 
THE SABBATH MORNING. 171 
 
 and reading, though the ministers did not come so 
 early. From eight to nine, the schools for boys and 
 girls met in the school-houses. The natives them- 
 selves instructed the children in the knowledge of 
 God, and heard them repeat their hymns and 
 catechism. 
 
 At a quarter before nine, a sound was heard : 
 sometimes it was the sound of a shell, that a man 
 carried round the village, and blew like a trumpet ; 
 in other places, it was the sound of a stone striking 
 against a bar of iron hung on a tree ; and in others, 
 it was the sound of a little bell ; but whatever was 
 the kind of sound, the meaning was the same 
 " Come ye to the house of the Lord." Then the 
 teachers led their classes to the chapel. The girls 
 walked first, two and two, and hand in hand, most 
 of them wearing frocks like English children, and 
 bonnets made of plaited grass or bark. Each carried 
 in her hand a little basket, containing her hymn- 
 book, catechism, and the Scriptures. The boys came 
 afterwards, dressed in native garments, a little mat 
 of bark round their waists, and a little red or yellow 
 shawl thrown over their shoulders, a hat of plaited 
 grass, and no shoes on their feet. Some of their par- 
 ents were often watching to see the children pass by. 
 Many a mother then blessed God, as she looked on 
 her darling child, for sending the missionaries, who 
 showed her the sin of burying it in the earth. 
 
172 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 The children sat in their appointed places at 
 chapel. The people were all ready before service 
 began, for though they had scarcely any clocks or 
 watches, they were obedient to the sound of the 
 trumpet-shell. 
 
 At half-past ten, or eleven, service was over. The 
 children walked back in order to their school-houses, 
 and were then dismissed by their teachers. Aftei 
 dinner the children assembled in school again, but 
 as it was very hot at that hour, each teacher often 
 took a class to sit under the shade of some thick 
 tree, and there asked them to repeat what they had 
 heard of the morning sermon, and talked to them of 
 a Saviour's love for little children. 
 
 Afternoon service began about four. By sunset 
 the people were all returned to their dwellings, to 
 spend the evening in reading, singing, and prayer. 
 Sometimes a few families met together, and some- 
 times the father of each family taught his own chil- 
 dren and servants. 
 
 In this manner the converted natives of the South 
 Seas passed their Sabbaths : they called them " a 
 delight, honorable, and did honor God ; not doing 
 their own ways, nor finding their own pleasure, nor 
 speaking their own words, but delighting themselves 
 in the Lord." Isaiah 58 : 13. 
 
AN UNWILLING GIVER. 173 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 THE NEW CUSTOMS OF TAHITI. 
 
 ALTHOUGH I have given so pleasing an account of 
 the people of Tahiti, you must not suppose that all 
 the people were converted in heart. It is to he 
 feared that only a few were really horn again, al- 
 though the hehavior of most was changed. Some- 
 times even those who the missionaries hoped were 
 converted, grieved them by their conduct. 
 
 A chief one day said to Mr. Bourne, in a proud 
 manner, "What are you teaching us? Why do you 
 not instruct us in English, and other things besides 
 religion ?" But in a few days he came to him, and 
 said he had been reading the words of Christ, " He 
 that despiseth you, despiseth me," and had been so 
 troubled on account of his bad behavior, that he had 
 neither been able to eat nor sleep till he had con- 
 fessed his sin. 
 
 I have told you also, that the people gave their 
 property willingly to the missionary society ; yet this 
 was not always the case. 
 
 One day a man came to Pomare with five bam- 
 boos of oil, and said, angrily, " Take them for your 
 society." 
 
 "No," said Pomare, "I will not mix your angry 
 bamboos with the missionary oil ; take them away." 
 
174 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 The man returned with his .bamboos, much morti- 
 fied at the disgrace of being refused, but I do not 
 know whether he was sensible of his sin. 
 
 The preaching of the word was, however, often 
 much blessed to the consciences of the people. Once 
 Mr. Nott preached a sermon on the words, " Let him 
 that stole, steal no more." In the sermon he said, 
 it was a duty to return things that had formerly 
 been stolen. 
 
 The next morning, when he opened his door, he 
 saw a number of natives sitting on the ground around 
 his dwelling. He was surprised to see them there 
 so early, and asked them the reason of their coming. 
 They replied, "We have not been able to sleep all 
 night ; we were at chapel yesterday, and heard you 
 say from the word of God, that Jehovah commanded 
 us not to steal ; whereas we used to worship Hiro, 
 and to think that he would protect thieves. We 
 have stolen : all these things that we have brought 
 with us are stolen goods." 
 
 Then one of the men held up a saw, saying, " I 
 stole this from the carpenter of such a ship." Others 
 held up knives and various tools. 
 
 Mr. Nott, who had taught them that it was wrong 
 to receive stolen goods, replied, "What have you 
 brought them to me for ? Take them home, and 
 wait till the ships from which you stole them, come 
 again, and then return them, with a present besides." 
 
THE WOMEN INSTRUCTED. 175 
 
 Still the people entreated Mr. Nott to keep the things 
 till they could find the owners. 
 
 Some of them, who had stolen some things from a 
 missionary who was now in another island, took a 
 voyage of seventy miles to restore the articles. 
 
 When the natives found any property on the 
 ground, such as knives, or tools, they would not 
 keep it themselves. Still, however, there were some 
 thieves, who were punished by the judges, when 
 they were discovered. 
 
 This autumn two men were even sentenced to 
 death, for rising up against the king. They were 
 hanged upon a cocoa-nut tree, and then taken down 
 and buried. 
 
 The missionaries' wives took much pains to im- 
 prove the women. They held weekly meetings with 
 them to give them instruction in religion. It was 
 touching to hear the mothers, at these meetings, la- 
 ment the children they had murdered. Some said 
 that the thoughts of their slaughtered babes tor- 
 mented them constantly- One of them inquired, 
 "Ought I to go to Jesus Christ for- pardon? Were 
 any murderers of their own children forgiven?" 
 
 They were told that the blood of Christ cleanseth 
 from all sin. We read also in the Bible that Ma- 
 nasseh, king of Judah, made his son to pass through 
 the fire, and was forgiven. This instance, perhaps, 
 may have comforted some mothers. 
 
J76 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 In some of the islands, great changes now took 
 place in the houses and clothes of the natives. Po- 
 mare did not like new customs, so that his people 
 did not improve so quickly in these respects, as the 
 natives of Raiatea and Huahine. 
 
 In those islands, the people were busily employed 
 in building white cottages. They obtained the white 
 plaster in a singular manner. At a little distance 
 from the shore, beneath the sea,there were immense 
 walls of white coral, called reefs. The people 
 brought large blocks of this coral to land upon rafts, 
 and then burnt the coral in pits, filled with wood. 
 The coral crumbled into powder, and dropped to the 
 bottom of the pit ; and with this white powder, the 
 natives made plaster for their new houses. They 
 built them of wood, and thatched them with palm 
 leaves. As they had no glass, they were obliged to 
 be satisfied with wooden lattices, and shutters. Most 
 of the houses had rooms only on one floor ; but some, 
 belonging to the chiefs, had upper rooms. They 
 were generally surrounded by gardens, or planta- 
 tions ; and a few had verandahs, as a shelter from 
 the heat, or covered balconies, where the inhabitants 
 might enjoy the sea-breezes, and an extensive view. 
 They were as comfortable inside, as they were pretty 
 outside, being furnished with wooden tables and sofas, 
 and the windows hung with white curtains, made of 
 cloth of bark, adorned with a painted border of leaves. 
 
NEW CUSTOMS. 177 
 
 Each native built his cottage on the spot that 
 pleased him best. One, preferring the edge of the 
 . sea, erected his on coral blocks, placed beneath the 
 water ; another, chose the shade of a grove ; and a 
 third, the pure air and fine prospect of the mountain 
 side ; but all fixed their abodes near some chapel 
 where a missionary preached, excepting a few who 
 lived on their lands in the valleys. In every village 
 a narrow road skirted the shore, and in many, a coral 
 pier, or path into the sea, was built to assist in land- 
 ing and embarking. 
 
 These beautiful villages now adorned the shores 
 of those islands, where savages once roamed from 
 place to place, lodging at night in open sheds, like 
 beasts of the field. 
 
 The natives began also to exchange their loose 
 garments for English dresses. The missionaries' 
 wives took pains to teach the women to make these 
 clothes, and to induce all to wear them. 
 
 Mrs. Crook and Mrs. Nott made some loose calico 
 dressing-gowns for Pomare, and afterwards a few of 
 the women made them for their husbands, and then 
 for themselves. Mrs. Ellis made a bonnet of leaves 
 for her little girl, and a hat of plaited leaves for her 
 husband. The women soon learned to plait, and 
 made hats and bonnets, not only of leaves, but also 
 of strips of white bark, and of yellow rushes, and 
 used strips of native cloth, or of bark, for ribands. 
 
 Night of Toil. -I r> 
 
178 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Shoes and stockings, coats and shirts, were pro- 
 cured by many natives from the ships, and worn 
 upon particular occasions. Few persons could afford 
 to wear English clothes every day, or could even 
 obtain a complete suit. It was common to see a 
 man with a hat and shoes, without stockings, or a 
 shirt. Sometimes the clothes were put on in a very 
 curious manner. A white shirt has been placed 
 over a long black coat, because the owner was un- 
 willing to hide the shirt by placing it under the coat. 
 The natives, however, soon learned to laugh at such 
 mistakes as this. 
 
 The reason that the missionaries encouraged the 
 people to dress in the English fashion was, because 
 it helped to correct one of their chief faults, which 
 was idleness. Food was procured so easily that the 
 natives were not accustomed to labor, and were still 
 disposed to waste much of their time in sleeping and 
 talking*. 
 
 I have before observed, that Pomare did not like 
 new customs. He did not choose entirely to adopt 
 the English mode of dress, and he placed a native 
 tiputa over the shirt he usually wore. But though 
 he did not like English fashions, he still loved Eng- 
 lish arts, and employed much of his time in writing. 
 
 He had a little shed built near his great house at 
 Matavai, and he spent whole days shut up there 
 with Mr. Nott, helping him to correct the gospel of 
 
POMARE'S INCONSISTENT CONDUCT. 179 
 
 St. John, and the Acts, which Mr. Nott had just 
 translated, and copying them out, while he lay upon 
 his chest on the floor. He took great pains also to 
 compose a dictionary, and collected many thousands 
 of words for the purpose. 
 
 Though he was so useful to the missionaries, he 
 continued to grieve them by many great faults in 
 his conduct. He often bought spirits of the sailors 
 that visited the islands, and drank to excess. Yet, 
 strange to say, he would allow no stills in his king- 
 dom, lest his subjects should indulge in drinking 
 spirits. And he continued to have family worship 
 morning and evening, and often sat with twenty at- 
 tendants around him, reading the Scriptures with 
 them verse by verse, and afterwards either engaged 
 in prayer himself, or asked one of these attendants to 
 undertake the office. 
 
180 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 THE STRANGERS FROM THE SOLITARY ISLE. 
 
 As we have been obliged to speak of the faults of 
 king Pomare, it will be the more pleasant to relate 
 some good things that he did. He went to a little 
 island, called High Island, or Raivavai, which was 
 four hundred miles from Tahiti, where he found the 
 people fighting against each other. He entreated 
 the chiefs to be reconciled, and succeeded in persuad- 
 ing them to leave off war, and to cast away their 
 idols, and appointed two excellent natives of Tahiti, 
 whom he had brought with him, to teach the inhab- 
 itants. As the people in this island considered Po 
 mare to be their king, he left this command before 
 he departed : "Watch, and see ; the man who stirs 
 up war again, let him be put to death." 
 
 A few months afterwards a ship came to the island, 
 and the captain was astonished to find the inhabi- 
 tants crowded into a large chapel, and above a hun- 
 dred persons, who could not enter, standing outside. 
 He heard that all the inhabitants had abandoned 
 their idols, and had turned some of them into stools 
 for their chapel. 
 
 There were ma,ny more little islands, which had 
 now abolished the worship of idols, and left off war, 
 through the instructions of native teachers. 
 
BIRTH OF A PRINCE. 13] 
 
 The six missionaries who now lived at- Tahiti, did 
 not all reside in one place, as the first missionaries 
 had done, but were stationed in different villages. 
 
 Mr. Crook was settled at Pa-pe-e-te, a place about 
 eight miles from Matavai. Here also the queen and 
 her sister, and the little princess Aimata, resided, and 
 were in consequence very often with Mr. Crook and 
 his family, to whom they became much attached. 
 Aimata went regularly to school, and improved rap- 
 idly. The queen and her sister attended both the 
 school and Mrs. Crook's meetings for the instruction 
 of women. This conduct was pleasing in persons of 
 their high station, and showed humility of mind, 
 that gave hope of increasing piety. 
 
 In June a very important event occurred in the 
 royal family. The queen became the mother of a 
 little boy. The king, who usually resided near the 
 Royal Mission Chapel at Papao, came immediately 
 to see his wife and son. He appeared pleased, and 
 expressed his wish that no one but Mrs. Crook should 
 touch the infant : she took it, and dressed it like an 
 English baby. As Mrs. Crook, however, could not 
 always attend to it, the queen's sister became the 
 baby's nurse ; though it was generally at the house 
 of Mrs. Crook, who was called its mother, because 
 the king had given her the principal charge of it. 
 Little Mary Crook was also called its mother, because 
 she had been chosen by the queen, according to the 
 
182 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 old custom, as her particular friend, and she em- 
 ployed herself diligently in making clothes for the 
 young prince. 
 
 You have already heard that the Gospel spread 
 from island to island in the South Seas; but the 
 manner in which it came to one of them is so re- 
 markable, that it must be related. 
 
 There was a little island called Ru-ru-tu, that lay 
 so many hundred miles from those where the breth- 
 ren labored, that it had never even been heard of in 
 them. Though it was only seven miles long, it was 
 so fruitful that six thousand people inhabited it. At 
 length it was visited by a dreadful plague, which 
 mowed down the people like grass, till only three or 
 four hundred remained alive. 
 
 Amongst the chiefs of Rurutu, was a young man 
 named A-u-u-ra. He felt a great desire to leave the 
 island, which he feared would soon be his grave. 
 The thought came also into his heart, that in some 
 other land he should hear something good, although 
 he knew not what. Auura persuaded some of his 
 friends to accompany him in a large canoe. His 
 wife also went with him. There were in all twenty- 
 five persons in the canoe, and a good store of food 
 and water. They arrived at length at a heathen 
 island called Tu-bu-ai, a hundred miles off, where 
 they were treated well, and their health was restored. 
 After some time had passed, they set sail to return 
 
THE TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE. 183 
 
 to their native island, hoping either to find the plague 
 abated, or to persuade the inhabitants to remove to 
 a happier spot, as they feared that the curse of the 
 gods rested on their country. During their voyage a 
 tempest arose, which drove them out of their course. 
 They rowed day after day, but could see no land : at 
 length their food and their water were spent ; they 
 could only refresh themselves with sea-water, and 
 they grew so weak that they often were obliged to 
 suffer their canoe to float idly upon the water, while 
 their terror was increased by the fear lest they should 
 be swallowed up by the evil spirit of the waters. 
 Yet He, who holds the wind in his fists, was guiding 
 their little vessel to a right haven. 
 
 After three weeks spent at sea, they saw land. 
 It was one of the Christian islands, and was called 
 Ma-u-pi-ti. The astonishment of the strangers was 
 great to find people dwelling in white cottages, cloth- 
 ed from head to foot, and to see men and women 
 eating together. They now heard for the first time 
 of the unseen God, and they appeared struck with 
 what they heard, and anxious to learn to read. They 
 did not stay at this island, but proceeded to Raiatea, 
 where they were kindly received by Mr. Williams 
 and Mr. Threlkeld. These brethren immediately 
 desired some of the natives to teach the strangers to 
 read. Auura and his wife paid very great attention 
 to all the instructions they received, but some of the 
 
184 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 others appeared slothful. Auura asked many sensi- 
 ble questions, and expressed a great desire to return 
 to his own land to tell his poor dying countrymen the 
 wonderful news of a Saviour ; for he was one of those 
 " strangers" of whom God says in the eighteenth 
 psalm, "As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey 
 iae." God seems to have prepared his heart by the 
 Holy Spirit to receive the Gospel with gladness. 
 
 In a few months Auura could both read and write, 
 and was ready to return to his own land ; but he 
 could not venture to make so long a voyage in the 
 canoe in which he had arrived. 
 
 At this time a ship visited the island. It was the 
 Hope, commanded by Captain Grimes. The captain 
 kindly offered to take Auura and his companions 
 back to the island of Rurutu. 
 
 When Auura heard this proposal he was delighted. 
 Only one thing grieved him, he felt he was not fit 
 to instruct the people of Rurutu ; and yet how could 
 he hope that a teacher would accompany him to his 
 distant land? But though the missionaries could 
 not go with him themselves, they determined to see 
 whether any other persons would accompany the 
 strangers. That evening they sent for all the people 
 who professed openly to love Christ by taking the 
 Lord's supper, and inquired whether any would go 
 and dwell in Rurutu. Two natives arose, and said, 
 "Here are we; send us." Their names were Ma- 
 
NATIVE MISSIONARIES. 185 
 
 he-mc-ne and Pu-na. The missionaries agreed to 
 send them, as well as their wives and little children, 
 for one of them had two children. 
 
 That whole night these two good men spent in 
 preparing to leave their native land, in order to sail 
 next morning. 
 
 There was another plan that the missionaries had 
 formed. They wished to learn the way to Rurutu ; 
 so they asked the captain to tie one of their boats to 
 his ship, and they desired some of the natives to go 
 with the ship, and to return in the boat. By this 
 means they hoped the natives would learn the way 
 to Rurutu, so that they should be able to send men 
 to it whenever they pleased. 
 
 This was a busy night indeed. Every body in the 
 chapel went home to find some present to give the 
 native missionaries at parting. One brought a razor, 
 another a knife, another a roll of cloth, another a few 
 nails. The missionaries gave spelling-books, and, 
 what was most valuable of all, a few copies of St. 
 Matthew's Gospel, which Mr. Davies had translated. 
 As there was some difference between the language 
 of Rurutu and of the Christian islands, it was diffi- 
 cult for Auura to understand the books, but he could 
 make out the meaning with pains. It was intended 
 that other books should soon be written. 
 
 Early in the morning the missionaries and many 
 of the people prayed in the chapel with those who 
 
186 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 were going to depart, and then accompanied them 
 to the ship. 
 
 How anxious the people left behind were to know 
 whether Auura would find any of his countrymen 
 living, and whether he would be able to persuade 
 them to turn from idols to the living and true 
 God. 
 
 On July the 5th they parted from the strangers. 
 On August the 9th they beheld the boat that the 
 captain had taken in tow returning. And what do 
 you think it brought with it ? Some prisoners, deaf, 
 dumb, blind, lame, who having eyes saw not, and 
 having ears heard not the frightful idols of Rurutu. 
 
 Besides these, the boat brought letters from Mahe- 
 mene to Pomare, and also from Auura. The mis 
 sionaries knew, from seeing the idols, that these let- 
 ters contained good news. However, they were anx- 
 ious to know the particulars. The men also who 
 returned in the boat, related many things that had 
 happened. I will give you a short account of them. 
 
 When Auura and his companions first reached Ru- 
 rutu, the people were much surprised to see them, 
 for they thought they had been eaten up by the evil 
 spirit of the waters. Auura on his part was glad 
 to find that his countrymen had not all perished by 
 the plague. The king of the island was a youth 
 about seventeen years old. He received Auura 
 kindly, and permitted him to hold a great meeting 
 
AUURA'S PROPOSAL. 187 
 
 af the inhabitants very soon after the arrival of the 
 boat. 
 
 You know why Auura wished such a meeting to 
 be held. He wanted to propose to the people giving 
 up their idols. One circumstance had already oc- 
 curred which had made the people doubt the power 
 of their idols. 
 
 The teachers, on first landing, had accidentally 
 knelt down, to return thanks to God, upon a part of 
 the shore sacred to Oro, and yet had not died, as the 
 people had expected. They and some others had 
 afterwards eaten upon a sacred spot, and the women 
 had eaten with their husbands, and had partaken of 
 hog and turtle. The Rurutans looked earnestly at 
 them, as the barbarians once did at Paul, expecting 
 some to have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly ; 
 but when they saw no harm come to them, they 
 thought that the gods would come in the night and 
 kill them, and one man actually went that night to 
 inquire whether Auura' s wife was still alive. But 
 when in the morning they found the new-comers all 
 well and safe, they began to suspect that they them- 
 selves had been deceived by the evil spirit. 
 
 In this frame of mind they assembled according 
 to Auura's request. 
 
 Auura spoke first. He said, "Friends, this is my 
 desire, and therefore am I come back to this land, 
 that you may know the name of the Son of God, 
 
188 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 and the work of the Holy Spirit in enlightening our 
 hearts, and the mercy of God towards us. This is 
 my desire : Let the evil spirit be this instant cast 
 into the fire ; is it agreeable to you, kings and chiefs ? 
 Shall we burn the evil spirit even now ? Shall we 
 overthrow his kingdom ? Let us no more worship 
 him. Let him have no more reign in our hearts. 
 Let the government of these Httle lands become Je- 
 hovah's." Then Auura proposed that they should all, 
 both men and women, assemble and eat together in 
 one place, and see whether they should really die, as 
 the evil spirit had said. 
 
 The king and chiefs consented to this proposal, 
 and replied, "We are glad because of your saying, 
 ' Burn the evil spirits in the fire.' " They also ex- 
 pressed their great surprise when they were told that 
 they had souls within them. Auura then asked them 
 to promise to be kind to the two teachers ; and the 
 king and chiefs promised that they would. 
 
 There were, however, two men in the assembly, 
 who did not like the idea of burning the gods. One 
 of them spoke in a deceitful manner, saying, " We 
 will hold the good word," not meaning to do so. 
 
 The other boasted, that he could fly up into the 
 sky; but Auura answered him, "Do fly up, let us 
 see you flying up immediately :" then he added, " The 
 people of Rurutu have been completely destroyed 
 through thee, and through thee alone, and now thou 
 
IDOLS OF RURUTU BURNED. 189 
 
 not deceive us again. "We know the true God. 
 Begone ! If the Son of God stood in our presence, 
 thou wouldst be ashamed." 
 
 The two teachers then spoke very affectionately 
 to the people. Puna concluded his speech with this 
 awful warning : " Should you not listen to this word, 
 you will die, and you will bear the wrath of God, 
 and you will be led by the evil spirit you have now 
 cast away, into the fire of hell ; but if you regard 
 the word and name of the Son of God, you will by 
 that means be saved." 
 
 The next day the people met together to eat, ac- 
 cording to agreement; but, though they ate in a 
 sacred place, and though women ate with men, and 
 partook of hog and turtle, no harm followed. The 
 people would, no doubt, have been afraid of making 
 the experiment, if God had not prepared them for 
 it, by letting them see others escape unhurt. 
 
 That very evening the people burnt their idols 
 and their temples. They spared, however, a few of 
 the idols, that they might send them in triumph to 
 the Christian islands. Auura and the teachers soon 
 began to instruct them about the true God, and his 
 Son the Lord Jesus, and to teach them to read. 
 Auura was so diligent, that he even went from house 
 to house, morning and evening, to pray in many of 
 the families, because they knew not how to pray 
 themselves. 
 
190 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Such was the wonderful account that the letters 
 from Rurutu contained. The missionaries in Raiatea 
 were anxious both to return public thanks to God, 
 and to let all the natives hear the joyful news. They 
 assembled one evening in the chapel, when three of 
 the natives who were called deacons, because they 
 helped the minister, held up the idols in the pulpit, 
 before the congregation. One of these was hollow, 
 and filled with a quap^ity of little gods, and with 
 the points of spears. There was great rejoicing in 
 Raiatea that evening, but surely not so great as 
 among the angels of heaven. 
 
THE KING'S FATAL ILLNESS. 191 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 THE DEATH OF POMARE II. 
 
 TOWARDS the close of the year 1821, Pomare was 
 attacked with a dropsy, which threatened his life. 
 He determined, therefore, for the benefit of his health, 
 to sail round the island of Eimeo ; but gaining no 
 benefit from his voyage, he removed to Papeete in 
 Tahiti, where Mr. Crook, who understood medicine, 
 lived. The king did not reside upon the shore, but 
 in a very little round island opposite the harbor, 
 where he and some of his chiefs had houses beneath 
 the shade of the tall cocoa-nut trees. By the desire 
 of the brethren, a day was appointed for fasting and 
 prayer for the king's recovery. 
 
 As soon as the sun arose on that day, Mr. Crook 
 and several chiefs visited the king, and prayed with 
 him around his bed. Afterwards, there were ser- 
 vices held in the chapel. The king's dropsy, how- 
 ever, increased. On the 7th of December, Mr. Crook 
 heard that Pomare had just had a fainting-fit. He 
 hastened to him, and found him sensible, and able to 
 understand a few sentences about God and his soul. 
 As the king soon revived a little, Mr. Crook returned 
 home. In the evening Pomare fainted again, and 
 Mr, Crook was again sent for. Mr. Crook then said 
 
J92 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 to him, " I would gladly do for you what I can, hut 
 I fear my hest will be of little avail. You have in- 
 deed been a great sinner, but Christ is a great Sav- 
 iour, and none but Jesus can help you now." Pomare 
 replied, " None but Jesus." These were his last 
 words. He then fell into a kind of stupor. The 
 queen and her sister hung over him, weeping aloud. 
 One of his cousins also wept bitterly, but his little 
 daughter Aimata did not appear much moved. Mr. 
 Crook sat at the foot of the bed with the young prince 
 in his arms, mournfully watching the king's counte- 
 nance. At eight o'clock that evening, Pomare ceased 
 to breathe. 
 
 Mr. Crook then knelt down with the afflicted 
 family, and offered up a short prayer. Immediately 
 afterwards a general weeping began, and cries of, 
 " Alas, alas, our king !" The queen and her sister 
 repeated, in a singing tone, " 'Twas he who brought us 
 hither, and now, alas, alas, for the children." Each 
 person who stood near, uttered some mournful words 
 in a singing tone, describing his own loss in particu- 
 lar, while tears rolled down his cheeks. 
 
 A coffin was made for Pomare, and a small house 
 was built for a tomb, near the Royal Mission Chapel. 
 Four days after the king's death, his body was placed 
 in this small white dwelling, beneath the shade of 
 spreading trees. All the missionaries were present, 
 and a multitude of people. Mr. Nott addressed the 
 
DEATH OF POMARE II. 193 
 
 people at the grave, and Mr. Henry prayed over it 
 that God would bless the event to those who still 
 lived. 
 
 Thus died Pomare II., at the age of forty-seven 
 years. 
 
 Every one who has read this history must already 
 be acquainted with his character. He possessed good 
 abilities, great perseverance, and a fondness for study ; 
 he was of a stubborn and reserved temper, and was 
 disposed to pride, covetousness, deceit, and intemper- 
 ance ; but the most odious part of his natural char- 
 acter was his treachery. He had, however, been a 
 friend to the missionaries, and a blessing to his peo- 
 ple ; he appeared to believe the word of God himself, 
 and persuaded many, while he forced none, to turn 
 from idols. The last day will show whether he was 
 a child of God ; for the numerous faults that appeared 
 in him to the last, rendered it doubtful to whom he 
 belonged. 
 
 A pious chief, named Hautia, said, after Pomare's 
 death, " I could not sleep all night for thinking of 
 Pomare. I was like a canoe rocking on the stormy 
 waves, which cannot rest. I thought of his body, 
 and I said in my heart, ' That is dead, and will be 
 in the grave ; but his soul, where is it ?' " 
 
 How many kings and common people, as Pomare 
 himself once observed, had sunk into the grave 
 without having heard of Christ. But God showed 
 
 Night of ToU. 13 
 
194 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 great mercy to Pomare, and sent to him the news of 
 a Saviour. 
 
 How sad it was that one who had received such 
 singular favors, should have continued in bondage to 
 many sins. The force of old habits of iniquity must 
 indeed have been stronger than we can imagine. Yet 
 it was not too strong for God's Spirit to overcome, if 
 Pomare had diligently sought for help. 
 
 There were, however, some parts of his charactei 
 pleasant to reflect upon. His attention to God's 
 word, his respect for God's ministers, and his zeal for 
 the spread of the Gospel, lead us to hope that the 
 root of the matter was in him, and that when multi- 
 tudes shall flock from the ends of the earth, Pomare 
 shall come from the islands of the south to sit down 
 with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of 
 heaven. 
 
 It was feared by many that much confusion would 
 arise in the kingdom, in consequence of the death 
 of Pomare. None, however, did arise. The people 
 accepted Pomare's little son, who was a year and a 
 half old, as their king. As so young a child could 
 not govern, several chiefs had been appointed by 
 Pomare, before he died, to govern in his stead. One 
 of these had more authority than the rest. He was 
 an old man, named Ma-nao-nao. He behaved in an 
 oppressive manner, claiming many gifts from tha 
 people. 
 
THE YOUNG KING. 105 
 
 The young king was called Pomare III., as lie was 
 the third of that name who had reigned over Tahiti. 
 
 He was entirely committed to the care of his aunt, 
 Pomare Vahine, who seemed fit for the charge. She 
 had lately been admitted to the Lord's supper, and 
 was both more correct in her conduct, and more ami 
 able in her manners, than the child's mother. 
 
 Mr. Nott came over every Sunday from Matavai, 
 to preach in the Royal Mission Chapel, which was 
 only four miles off; and he promised to come and 
 live near it, as soon as a house was built for him, and 
 to undertake the education of the little king. 
 
 Pomare Vahine often took the child to another 
 house belonging to her, near Mr. Crook at Papeete. 
 The little king was very fond of Mr. Crook's family, 
 which consisted of nine children, and with whom he 
 had been a great deal ever since he was born. From 
 being so much with them, he soon began to speak 
 English. He also appeared to like English people 
 better than natives, and to prefer their food and all 
 their ways. The missionaries were glad to observe 
 this taste, because they hoped, that when he was 
 older, he would delight in the things they would 
 teach him, and hate all heathen customs. The late 
 king Pomare had never cast off some of them ; for 
 instance, he never permitted a woman to eat in a 
 house where he had been. The missionaries were 
 sorry to perceive that the servants of the little king 
 
196 1HE NIGHT OF TOIL 
 
 had some heathen ideas : for once when the child 
 touched with his foot some fruit that was lying on 
 the ground, the servants said, "It must not he eaten, 
 throw it away ;" because they thought that the king, 
 by touching it, had made it sacred. It is very long 
 before a nation can get rid of superstition, and follow 
 no rule but the word of Grod. 
 
 Many natives from the converted islands had al- 
 ready visited heathen islands ; but none had yet gone 
 so far as the Marquesas, which were a thousand miles 
 off, and were inhabited by a very wild race. Mr. 
 Crook had lived among them in his youth, and had 
 been obliged to leave them in a year and a half. To 
 these islands the missionaries were anxious to send 
 two native teachers. An opportunity of conveying 
 them occurred at this time, for a ship called the Mer- 
 maid touched at Huahine, and offered to take any 
 persons to the Marquesas. 
 
 A meeting to consult upon the subject was held 
 in the chapel at Huahine. An excellent man, named 
 Hautia,* was regent of the island ; for the queen of 
 the island, Pomare Yahine, lived at Tahiti. Hautia 
 sat in the chair at this meeting. The missionaries 
 first arose, and made speeches on the subject of choos- 
 ing two natives for the Marquesas. 
 
 Afterwards Auna rose an excellent man, yet once 
 
 * Hautia was the man who had compared himself to a canoe 
 upon the waves, when uneasy on account of Pomare's soul. 
 
HAUTIA AND AUNA. 197 
 
 a priest of Hiro, the god of thieves. His form was 
 noble, and his countenance beamed with benevolence 
 and joy 
 
 He hesitated before he spoke. Auna did not often 
 hesitate. It was plain that he had something to say 
 that lay very near his heart, and that he scarcely 
 could utter. This was the substance of his speech : 
 " It is a good thing to send the word of God to those 
 who are in the same state that we once were. I have 
 a little speech to make if I and my wife might be 
 so favored as to be sent to the heathen ; but perhaps 
 we are not worthy." Auna then sat down with 
 great humility. 
 
 Hautia the regent then rose, and said, " Auna is 
 the man to go." Others exclaimed, " Auna is the 
 man." The whole assembly agreed that Auna and 
 his wife .were fit persons for the work, for they were 
 not only good, and able to teach the knowledge of 
 God, but the wife could instruct the heathen women 
 in platting bonnets and making clothes, and thus 
 render them industrious. A man who had such a 
 wife as Auna, was called a two-handed man. 
 
 Another man named Mattatore, and his wife, were 
 chosen by the whole assembly to accompany Auna. 
 It only remained for Hautia to express his wish upon 
 the subject. The congregation looked towards him, 
 and were surprised to perceive him still silent and 
 full of sadness. At length he rose, arid with a meek- 
 
198 THE NLGIIT OF TOIL. 
 
 ness and humility which appeared very lovely in this 
 noble and majestic chief, said, " I have a little speech, 
 because a thought has grown up in my heart, and in 
 the heart of my wife, Hautia Vahine. But perhaps 
 it is not a good thought ; yet I must speak it, and 
 this is our thought. If the missionaries and the 
 church of Huahine think that I and my wife are fit 
 to be companions for Auna and his wife, and to go 
 and teach the good word of God to those idolatrous 
 people, who are as we ivere, we should be rejoiced to. 
 go ; but perhaps we are not worthy, and others may 
 be much better suited for the blessed work ; yet we 
 should love to go." 
 
 The whole assembly were astonished at hearing 
 this proposal. "Was it indeed true that this great 
 chief, who was almost a king, desired to become a 
 teacher of savages ? "Was he willing to leave the 
 people who esteemed him, and live among those who 
 would despise him ; to forsake his comfortable dwell- 
 ing for a strange land ? It is said in the parable of 
 Jotham, Judges 9, that the olive-tree would not leave 
 his fatness, nor the fig-tree his sweetness, even to 
 reign over the trees ; but this man was willing to 
 forsake all, that he might be the servant of Christ. 
 
 Mr. Tyerman and Mr. Bennet, gentlemen, who had 
 been sent out from England to visit the islands, were 
 much delighted by this proof of love to the Redeemer. 
 One of them arose and addressed the noble pair, 
 
MISSION TO THE MARdUESAS. 199 
 
 through an interpreter. He told them that their 
 wish was good, but that, like David's wish to build' 
 the temple, it must be denied ; for that they were so 
 useful in Huahine, that they could not be spared. 
 
 Hautia appeared disappointed at this reply, and 
 with much feeling answered, " Since you say so, per- 
 haps it is the Lord's will that we should not go to 
 the Marquesas, but stay in Huahine ; perhaps we may 
 serve God better here : be it so, and yet I wish it had 
 fallen to me and my wife to go." 
 
 Auna and Mattatore then came forward, and knelt 
 at the table before the pulpit. Mr. Ellis then prayed 
 that God would fit them for the undertaking, and 
 afterwards Mr. BarfF delivered to them a solemn 
 charge. The service was concluded with singing 
 and prayer. Though the people loved Auna and his 
 companions, yet they were willing to part with them 
 for so holy a purpose as preaching the knowledge of 
 the Saviour among the heathen. 
 
200 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. 
 
 WHILE some of the natives of the South Seas were 
 crossing the ocean to spread the Gospel, those at 
 home were not unmindful of the blessed cause. In 
 Tahiti and the neighboring islands there were yearly 
 meetings or anniversaries of the Missionary Society 
 held every May. 
 
 The anniversary held at the Royal Mission Chapel 
 this year was particularly interesting, on account of 
 the presence of the little Pomare, who was not quite 
 two years old. He was chosen president of the soci- 
 ety instead of his father, and was therefore placed 
 in the chair, being held in the arms of a chief named 
 Hitote. It was delightful to behold a royal infant 
 in such a situation. What throne could become him 
 so well as the seat in which he was placed for the 
 purpose of advancing the kingdom of Him who had 
 given him a kingdom, and who is himself the King 
 of kings ? Who cannot but desire that every mon 
 arch, both young and old, in every country beneath 
 the sun, occupied such a post? The day, however, 
 shall come when all kings shall fall down before the 
 Son of God, and count it the highest honor to dp him 
 honor. Ps. 72 : 11. 
 
COURT OF JUDGMENT. 201 
 
 The account of the contributions made by the peo- 
 ple during the year, was read aloud by the Upaparu. 
 Though nearly ten thousand bamboos* of oil had 
 been subscribed, besides twenty-four pigs, two hun- 
 dred and sixty-seven balls of arrowroot, and one 
 hundred and ninety-one baskets of cotton, yet the 
 chiefs regretted that the amount had not been great- 
 er, and one of them observed in his little speech, 
 " Where do we lay out our strength ? Is it for God, 
 or the devil ? For this world, or the next ?" 
 
 Parents in former times did not correct their chil- 
 dren, but now they took much pains with their 
 disobedient children. One father, who had a very 
 rebellious son, after reproving him, placed him in a 
 basket in the roof. A missionary who entered was 
 surprised to see legs hanging down from the ceiling, 
 and was then told that a boy was in the basket, and 
 would be taken down by and by. 
 
 There were many rebellious young people in the 
 islands, who committed crimes for which they were 
 brought before the judges. 
 
 Mr. Bennet and Mr. Tyerman were present on 
 one of these occasions, and have given the following 
 account of it. 
 
 The court of judgment they visited was under a 
 large spreading tree, near the chapel at Papetoai in 
 Eimeo. Around the tree long benches were placed, 
 * A bamboo contains nearly three quarts. 
 
202 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 on which thirty chiefs, who were judges, sat. The 
 chief judge was distinguished from the rest by a 
 bunch of black and red feathers in his straw hat. 
 In other respects he was clothed, like the rest, in 
 handsome native clothing. The criminals were two 
 young men accused of stealing breadfruit. They 
 were led in, and desired to sit on the ground beneath 
 the tree. The judge rose, and calling upon the 
 young men also to stand up, told them that they 
 were certainly guilty, for they had been detected in 
 the theft, and represented to them how great a fault 
 they had committed. 
 
 One of the young men immediately confessed his 
 guilt, and owned that he had persuaded his com- 
 panion to join with him in the theft. 
 
 It was pleasing to hear this frank confession. Such 
 confessions were usually made by the guilty, so that 
 witnesses were seldom necessary. The chief judge 
 consulted with the other chiefs respecting the pun- 
 ishment to be inflicted on the youths, and then sen- 
 tenced them each to build twenty-four feet of wall 
 round a royal garden of taro. The culprits were 
 asked whether they agreed to the sentence, and they 
 replied that they did. 
 
 The usual punishment for theft was to restore four 
 times as much as the value of the thing stolen, but 
 the judges were allowed to appoint any other pun- 
 ishment, if they thought fit. This was a defect in 
 
SINGULAR PUNISHMENTS. 203 
 
 the laws, as it sometimes led people to think they 
 were unjustly treated. Criminals were also allowed 
 to receive the assistance of their friends in performing 
 the tasks appointed them. A son was often helped 
 by his father in his work, and a young chief by his 
 companions. 
 
 Very strange punishments were sometimes inflicted 
 upon offenders. In. the island of Raiatea, two deep 
 pits were once dug on the side of a hill ; each was 
 about fifteen feet deep, and was smaller at the top 
 than at the bottom, so that it appeared impossible 
 to climb up the sides. A woman who had run away 
 from her husband and got herself tattooed, was put 
 in one of these pits, and the man who tattooed her 
 in the other. They were told they must remain 
 there till they asked forgiveness, and promised to 
 return to their duty. While they continued in the 
 pits, they were fed on a little breadfruit and water. 
 
 At the end of two days, some loose earth falling 
 upon the woman, she thought a spirit was coming to 
 torment her, and by making very great efforts she 
 contrived to escape from her prison, and returning 
 home, asked her husband to forgive her, which he 
 willingly did. After some time the man also showed 
 signs of sorrow, and was released. 
 
 It may be thought hard by some, that people were 
 not allowed to be tattooed, or to tattoo others. But 
 the chiefs had forbidden these practices, for very wise 
 

 204 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 reasons. They found that when the natives chose 
 to be tattooed, they soon returned to many other of 
 their old heathen habits. Ill-disposed young people 
 were very determined in their resolution to be tat 
 tooed, and would have one limb after another thus 
 marked, in spite of a punishment after each offence. 
 
 These obstinate offenders were made useful to their 
 country. In Tahiti they, as well as other criminals, 
 began a broad road, that was to be made all round 
 the island. In many places they brought great 
 blocks of coral from the sea to build piers. The 
 same persons might often be seen engaged in these 
 fatiguing labors. It seemed surprising that they 
 should continue in sins that brought upon them such 
 severe toil ; but the servants of Satan suffer more in 
 the service of their master, than God's most diligent 
 servants do in his. 
 
 The only way to prevent tattooing was at length 
 found to be, having the parts that were marked, dis- 
 figured by the skin being taken off, and foul blotches 
 left where beautiful patterns had been pricked in. 
 
 A very singular punishment was once inflicted on 
 four men, who were detected in a house with a 
 quantity of the root called ava, which they were 
 going to prepare for drinking. Some men were sent 
 to take away the house from over the heads of the 
 offenders. They unfastened the roof, and carried it 
 away on their shoulders to the house of the chief of 
 
PLEASING INSTANCE OF JUSTICE. 205 
 
 the district. The night was stormy, and the culprits 
 went from house to house imploring shelter, but 
 were everywhere denied, the people telling them 
 they were bad men, with whom they would have 
 nothing to do. At last the outcasts came to the mis- 
 sionaries, and were allowed to take refuge in a shed 
 from the torrents of rain that were descending. 
 
 On one occasion Mr. Bennet and Mr. Tyerman 
 observed a man standing outside a chapel in Tahiti. 
 They were informed that he had been in a passion, 
 and had threatened the person who had provoked 
 him to kill him, and deliver him to be eaten by his 
 god. For uttering this curse, the man, by order of 
 the chiefs, was shut out from the congregation for 
 one Sabbath. 
 
 A pleasing instance of justice being shown to the 
 poor occurred in Huahine. Little Pomare's mother, 
 the queen, once visited this island, and, wanting 
 some wood, ordered her servants to cut down a 
 breadfruit tree that grew in a poor man's garden. 
 Kings and queens had been brought up to oppress 
 the poor, and to think only of their own pleasure ; 
 therefore the queen was surprised when she was 
 desired to appear before the judge the next morning. 
 Trials generally took place at sunrise, when the air 
 was cool. At that time the queen with her train of 
 attendants appeared before the judge, who was sit- 
 ting beneath the shade of a spreading tree. The 
 
206 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 queen took her seat before him upon a fine mat. 
 The poor man began by making his complaint. The 
 judge then turning to the queen, said, " Do you not 
 know that we have laws ?" 
 
 She replied, " Yes, but I did not know they ap- 
 plied to me." 
 
 The judge then asked if it was said in the laws 
 that kings and queens need not obey them. 
 
 She answered, " No ;" and then sent her servants 
 to fetch a bag of money, which she threw down 
 before the man. 
 
 " Stop," said the judge, " we have not done yet." 
 The queen began to weep. " Do you think it was 
 right," continued the judge, " to cut down a tree 
 without the owner's leave ?" 
 
 11 It was not right," replied the queen. 
 
 Then the judge asked the poor man what recom- 
 pense he required. 
 
 The man replied, " If the queen is convinced that 
 it was not right to take a poor man's tree without 
 his leave, I am sure she will not do so again. I am 
 satisfied I require no other recompense." 
 
 The people who stood round were pleased with 
 this answer. I believe the queen afterwards sent 
 the poor man a present equal in value to the tree. 
 
 It is evident that the natives were rendered much 
 happier by the laws than they could have been 
 without them ; for the judges were only a terror to 
 
A JOYFUL FEAST. 207 
 
 evil-doers, and protected those who did well. There 
 were, however, many occasions on which the hap- 
 piness of the people was openly shown. An account 
 of one of these joyful feasts, at which Mr. Tyerman 
 and Mr. Bennet were present, shall be related. 
 
 The feast took place in the island of Raiatea, 
 where Mr. Williams and Mr. Threlkeld labored, 
 and where the people had adopted more English 
 customs than in almost any other island. 
 
 There was a coral pier erected upon the beach 
 near the missionary settlement. Upon this pier the 
 feast was held. A thousand persons were present. 
 They came from all parts of the island, some in ca- 
 noes and some on foot, bringing with them both 
 furniture and provisions. At break of day the prep- 
 arations began. Fresh grass was spread upon the 
 rough coral pavement as a carpet, and a native cloth 
 was stretched above as a shelter from the sun. More 
 than a hundred tables, which the natives brought 
 with them, were placed on the pier, and wooden 
 sofas, and chairs, and stools, were ranged around. 
 
 Native cloth, or matting, was used for tablecloths, 
 and various kinds of dinner things were set out. 
 Some few persons had plates and knives and forks 
 from England ; but most had only native plates 
 made of leaves, and such spoons as they themselves 
 could make. Fruit and roots were the principal 
 food, though a little baked hog and fish were also 
 
208 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 seen. At noon the company sat down to dinner, not 
 omitting to ask a blessing on their plentiful provis- 
 ions. Mr. Bennet and Mr. Tyerman, with the mis- 
 sionaries and their families, were seated at a table, 
 under an awning, prepared for them, and looked with 
 delight at the happy assembly. 
 
 At each table fathers and mothers were surrounded 
 by smiling boys and girls, who once would not have 
 been allowed to eat together, and many of whom 
 would long ago have been buried in the earth, had 
 not the Gospel of salvation been made known. 
 After dinner several chiefs arose, one after another, 
 and reminded the natives of the blessings they en- 
 joyed. 
 
 One of them observed, " A few years ago, at a 
 feast, none but kings, or chiefs, or strong men, would 
 have got any thing to eat ; the poor, and the lame, 
 and the blind, would have been trampled under 
 foot, and probably killed in the rioting and drunk- 
 enness of the feast." 
 
 Another chief observed, " This is the reign of 
 Jesus that was the reign of Satan. Once we used 
 to flee to the mountains to hide ourselves, lest we 
 should be slain as sacrifices to Oro, and we were 
 afraid to return till we heard that a victim had been 
 offered." 
 
 A shower of rain coming on in the afternoon, the 
 company left the pier and took shelter among the 
 
EVENING OF A HAPPY DAY. 209 
 
 trees on the shore. When the rain was over, they 
 returned to drink tea. 
 
 It may well be asked, How could they procure tea ? 
 A few had obtained a little tea and sugar from the 
 ships, and thought it a very excellent drink, because 
 it was so rare. But even warm water was a luxury 
 to the natives ; for, as they had formerly no vessels 
 that could bear the fire, they were once unable to 
 boil water. 
 
 Many kettles and frying-pans were produced at 
 teatime. One spoonful of tea was thought sufficient 
 to put in a kettle of water, and sugar alone was used 
 by others, for few persons had both tea and sugar. 
 The chief supply indeed was taken from an immense 
 pan, filled with water, and a little sugar. 
 
 The drinking vessels were also curious. No set 
 of tea-things was to be seen ; but a mixture of tea- 
 pots, cups, jugs, porringers, glasses, and bottles, with 
 the native drinking- vessel the cocoa-nut shell. 
 
 When tea was over, the assembly began to prepare 
 for their departure by packing up their things ; and 
 then, either bearing their tables and sofas on their 
 shoulders, or placing them in their canoes, they re- 
 turned home, many of them, no doubt, blessing Him 
 who had given them all things richly to enjoy. 
 
 From every dwelling the sound of prayer and 
 praise was to be heard ascending, on the evening of 
 this day of innocent pleasure. 
 
 Night of Toil. ^4 
 
210 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Nearly at the same time that this feast was given 
 in Raiatea, an event of importance took place in the 
 royal family of Tahiti, namely, the marriage of the 
 princess Aimata. She was still very young, and 
 would only have been counted a child in England, 
 but in Tahiti she was considered almost grown up. 
 Some time before, a husband had been chosen for her. 
 fle was not himself a king, but was descended from 
 an ancient race of kings, who had once reigned in the 
 island of Ta-ha-a. He was an orphan, and had been 
 committed to the care of the pious king who then 
 reigned over Tahaa. It was hoped, that as he had 
 received a Christian education, and appeared well 
 disposed, he would prove a worthy husband foi 
 Aimata. 
 
 The marriage ceremony took place a few days after 
 their first meeting, and was performed in the chapel 
 at noon. Mr. Ellis and Mr. BarfF, the missionaries 
 at Huahine, took their station behind the communion- 
 table before the pulpit. The youthful pair stood op- 
 posite, and the friends of each were ranged on either 
 side. Aimata was dressed in an English white gown, 
 with a pink scarf, and a bonnet made of white bark, 
 trimmed with white ribands. The ladies also who 
 attended her were dressed in the English manner ; 
 but the chiefs wore their native clothing. A tear 
 was observed in Aimata's eye during the service, and 
 this tear was a sign of feeling which, had she been a 
 
PLEASING REFLECTIONS. 211 
 
 heathen, she would hardly have possessed. But 
 Aimata had often heen instructed in the schools, and 
 was aware of the holy nature of a promise. After 
 the vows were made and the blessings pronounced, 
 the marriage was recorded in a book. Guns were 
 then fired by the guards of Hautia, who were now 
 drawn up outside the chapel. The day was con- 
 cluded by a feast, in which God's name was not for- 
 gotten, and in which no rioting and excess were per- 
 mitted. 
 
 How different was this Christian marriage from 
 those of the natives in former times. It is true, the 
 heathen used to pronounce vows of fidelity in their 
 temples, but they never kept them ; although the 
 skulls of their forefathers were often brought out and 
 ranged before the young couple, and though their 
 mothers wounded themselves with sharks' teeth, and 
 stained a cloth with their blood mingled together. 
 
 The religion of Jesus had banished these horrible 
 ceremonies from these lovely isles, and had brought 
 down upon them unnumbered blessings, both in time 
 and in eternity. 
 
,12 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV, 
 
 l-HE CORONATION OF THE LITTLE ZING. 
 
 THE little king Pomare was not brought up in all 
 respects as the missionaries desired, for though his 
 aunt had the charge of him, his mother sometimes 
 gave directions concerning him. Before the child 
 was three years old, he was carried on the shoulders 
 of a stout man round part of the island, accompanied 
 by his mother, and was instructed by her to beg of 
 his subjects, according to the ancient custom of the 
 Tahitiaii kings. As he passed by the houses of the 
 natives, he was shown to the people, who came out 
 to see him. The mother took this opportunity of 
 looking into their dwelling, and whatever she saw 
 that she fancied, she desired her child to ask for. 
 Pomare needed only to say, " Hog, plantain, mat, 
 dish," and the thing wanted was joyfully given to 
 him by his dutiful subjects. 
 
 The missionaries feared lest the child should ac- 
 quire covetous habits, like those which had disgraced 
 his father and grandfather. 
 
 Sometimes the young monarch was engaged in a 
 manner that delighted the servants of God. You 
 have lately heard how he sat in the chair of the 
 missionary meeting. On another occasion he was 
 present at a scene of a like religious nature. 
 
LAYING THE FIRST STONE. 213 
 
 A new chapel was wanted in Papeete, where Mr. 
 Crook resided, and which was only four miles from 
 the residence of the royal family. It was agreed that 
 little Pomare should lay the first stone in a public 
 assembly. Mr. Tyerman and Mr. Bennet were pres- 
 ent at this ceremony, which was performed in the 
 month of June, 1823. 
 
 A service was held under the shade of the trees 
 that grew by the sea-shore. Hymns were sung, a 
 prayer was offered, and a sermon was preached by 
 Mr. Crook from the words, " Other foundation can no 
 man lay than that which is laid, even Christ Jesus." 
 
 During the service, the congregation, which con- 
 sisted of a thousand persons, sat upon the green grass. 
 A great many arbors had been constructed of palm- 
 branches, and provisions had been prepared. After 
 the service the people took refreshment in these leafy 
 tents. The royal family, Mr. Crook and his family, 
 and the travellers, dined in a large arbor, from which 
 they had a view of the happy company. The scene 
 must have reminded them of Israel of old, when they 
 kept the feast of tabernacles, sitting in tents made of 
 boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and 
 boughs of thick trees, rejoicing before the Lord. 
 
 Many of the chiefs made speeches that day upon 
 the goodness of God to their nation. They could 
 remember the dreadful deeds that used to be com- 
 mitted at the laying the first stone of a marae ; how 
 
214 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 the king fixed upon one of the multitude, as a sacri- 
 fice, and made a secret sign to his servants to destroy 
 him ; and how in a moment the poor creature was 
 knocked on the head, and hurried into a hole, when 
 a post, or block of coral, was planted upon his warm 
 and bleeding breast, and the earth around was trod- 
 den down by the feet of the spectators. Each post, 
 or block of a marae was usually thus founded in 
 blood. "Who could remember those days without 
 blessing God for Christian ministers, and exclaiming, 
 " How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of 
 him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth 
 peace !" 
 
 It was now desired publicly to anoint Pomare king ; 
 but it was thought well to improve the laws and the 
 government before the coronation took place. 
 
 Formerly the kings of Tahiti had done whatever 
 they pleased ; but Pomare the Second had made laws, 
 and promised to govern according to them. The 
 chiefs now resolved to improve the government still 
 farther by forming a parliament, in some degree sim- 
 ilar to that of England. It was to consist of all the 
 chiefs of Tahiti and Eimeo, and of two persons of a 
 lower rank from each division of those islands. These 
 two persons were to be chosen every three years by 
 the people in each division. 
 
 The chiefs, and the persons chosen by the people, 
 were to meet together in one house every year, and 
 
THE NEW PARLIAMENT. 215 
 
 to make laws, and to determine on all that was right 
 to be done ; but they were to do nothing without the 
 consent of the king, or of the regent, while the king 
 was a child. 
 
 The missionaries did not wish to interfere with 
 this parliament ; for their business was not with the 
 affairs of the world, but only with the word of God, 
 and the souls of men : still, they were willing to give 
 their counsel when it was desired. 
 
 This parliament first met in February, 1824. Mr, 
 Nott was particularly requested to preside. He con- 
 sented to sit in the chair, and to give advice when 
 consulted, but he refused to do more. Some other 
 missionaries were present, as well as Mr. Tyerman 
 and Mr. Bennet. 
 
 One of the chief faults in the old laws was the 
 power left with the judge to punish many offences in 
 the manner he thought best. This defect was cor- 
 rected in the new laws, and a particular punishment 
 was assigned to each different kind of offence. 
 
 Some chiefs were desirous to alter the punishment 
 for murder and rebellion. They did not like that 
 death should be inflicted upon men, because it took 
 away the opportunity for repentance ; therefore they 
 proposed that murderers and rebels should be ban- 
 ished to a desert island, called Palmerston's Isle, or 
 to some other similar place. 
 
 There were many islands that lay far apart by 
 
216 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 themselves in the wide ocean, and from which no 
 criminal could escape in any boat that he would be 
 able to build. In these he might live upon cocoa- 
 nuts and water, and have opportunity in his solitude 
 to think of his sins, and to ask for a new heart. The 
 chiefs thought that bad men would be more alarmed 
 at this punishment than at death itself, while in 
 reality it would be more merciful. 
 
 Still, it must not be supposed that many persons 
 had been hitherto executed. Since the laws had first 
 been made, nearly five years ago, only four men had 
 been put to death. They had all been guilty of 
 rebellion against Pomare, but not of murder. Two 
 had been hanged oh one occasion, and two on an- 
 other. At the last execution, Mr. Crook had attend 
 ed, and had spoken to the multitude while the bodies 
 were hanging on the pole, between two trees. Yet 
 these executions had not had a good effect upon the 
 natives, but had appeared to harden them. 
 
 After a long argument between the chiefs on the 
 subject of the punishment of death, it was decided 
 that it should be abolished. 
 
 The parliament spent eight days in consulting 
 together. Each day's business was begun and con- 
 cluded with prayer, and the behavior of all present 
 was excellent. No one interrupted or contradicted 
 another, nor uttered an angry word, or by his manner 
 appeared to think that he knew more than the rest ; 
 
THE CORONATION. 217 
 
 but each behaved courteously, and spoke modestly 
 and sensibly. 
 
 Soon after the meeting of parliament, the corona- 
 tion of the little king took place. He was now nearly 
 four years old. The day appointed was April 21st, 
 1824. The place of coronation was a field, where a 
 platform of stones was erected under a high tree, 
 with a lower platform by the side of the first. 
 
 On the day of the coronation the people met early 
 at the queen's house, which was about half a mile 
 from the coronation field. The little king was 
 dressed in his coronation robes in Mr. Nott's house, 
 the robes having been made by Mrs. JSTott. He was 
 then conveyed to the queen's house, where many 
 were waiting to receive him, and was placed upon a 
 chair, under a canopy of native cloth. 
 
 The procession was then arranged. This was tha 
 order of it. 
 
 A woman and two girls scattering flowers. 
 
 Wives and children of missionaries. 
 
 Mr. Bennet. Mahine, a chief judge, Mr. Nott. 
 
 Mr. Henry. carrying a Bible. Mr. Tyerman. 
 
 Seven missionaries, and son and nephew, in two rows. 
 A chief judge. Utami, a chief judge, A chief judge. 
 
 with copy of the laws. 
 
 A chief judge. Tati, with crown. A chief judge. 
 
 King's mother KING, King's aunts, 
 
 and sister. carried in a chair by four chiefs ; 
 canopy supported by four youths. 
 
 Pomare, chief of Tahaa. 
 
 Relations of the royal family, carrying three tables, and phial of oil. 
 Governors, four in a row. 
 
 Judges, four in a row. 
 Magistrates, four in a row. 
 
218 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 A multitude, consisting of eight thousand persona 
 viewed this procession walk to the appointed field. 
 Among the spectators were the kings and chiefs of 
 Raiatea and Huahine, and the neighboring islands. 
 This was the first Christian coronation that had ever 
 taken place hi the South Seas, and it was observed 
 as a pattern for others. 
 
 When the procession reached the platforms, the 
 king was placed in his chair on the highest platform, 
 just beneath the tall tree that shaded it, as well as 
 beneath his own little canopy. The three little 
 tables were placed before him. The crown was laid 
 on the middle table, and the Bible and the laws and 
 phial of oil on the tables on each side. Mr. Davies 
 sat close by the little monarch, to answer for him 
 when addressed. 
 
 The royal family surrounded him, and the mission- 
 aries, their wives and children, and the chief judges, 
 sat at a little distance from them. 
 
 On the lower platform, the governors and lesser 
 judges were stationed, and around it their wives and 
 children and the magistrates were arranged. 
 
 When all was in readiness, the coronation service 
 was begun by Mr. Darling giving out a hymn suita- 
 ble for the occasion. After the singing, Mr. Crook 
 offered up a prayer, and Mr. Nott gave an address to 
 the people. In the address, Mr. Nott pointed out to 
 the people the duty of obedience to the king they 
 
CORONATION CEREMONIES. ' 219 
 
 now publicly acknowledged, and lie read over the 
 laws to them, asking them to hold up their hands to 
 show their approbation of them. 
 
 When Mr. Nott had concluded his discourse, and 
 had placed the laws again upon the table, Mr. Ben- 
 net presented them to the king, while Mr. "Wilson 
 addressed the following words to him : "Do you 
 promise to govern your people in justice and mercy, 
 in obedience to the word of God, and these laws, and 
 any other laws that the parliament may agree upon, 
 with your consent ?" 
 
 Mr. Davies then directed Pomare to reply, "I do, 
 God being my helper." 
 
 Mr. Henry then took the oil from the table, and 
 poured some upon the head of the king, at the same 
 time observing that the oil represented the Holy 
 Spirit's power, which only could enable him to act 
 like a Christian prince. Mr. Davies then prayed 
 that God's Spirit might rest upon the king, and pro- 
 nounced a blessing upon him. 
 
 Mr. Nott then took the crown from the table, and 
 put it on the king's head, saying, " May God grant 
 you prosperity, health, length of days, and grace to 
 rule in righteousness, and in the fear of the Lord!" 
 
 The people then gave three shouts, saying, "Long 
 live the king ! May the king be saved!" 
 
 Mr. Tyerman next presented the Bible to the king, 
 while Mr Darling addressed him in these words : 
 
220 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 "King Pomare, we present to you this book, the 
 most valuable thing in the world. Here is wisdom ; 
 this is the royal law ; these are the lively oracles of 
 God. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear 
 the words of this book, and keejJ and do the things 
 contained in it ; for these are the words of eternal 
 life, able to make you wise and happy in this world, 
 nay, wise unto salvation, and so happy for evermore, 
 through faith in Christ Jesus, to whom be glory for 
 ever and ever. Amen." 
 
 Mr. Jones now gave out another hymn, and Mi 
 "Wilson concluded with prayer for the king, the na 
 tion, and the church of God. 
 
 A man now proclaimed pardon to all who were 
 under punishment from the law, permitting the ban- 
 ished to return, and the prisoners to be set free. 
 
 The coronation being now ended, the procession 
 descended from the platforms, and walking in the 
 same order as before, proceeded to the Hoyal Mission 
 Chapel. The little king sat in the chair of state in 
 his pew, but the crown was taken from his head and 
 placed on the little table before him. The other 
 tables, with the laws and Bible, were also placed in 
 the king's pew. The royal family sat with the king 
 in his pew. 
 
 "When public worship was over, the procession 
 went to the coronation dinner, which was plentiful, 
 but where no excess was permitted. 
 

 DELIGHTFUL CONTRAST. 221 
 
 Those who had been present at the heathen festi- 
 vals in honor of kings, could alone tell how differently 
 this coronation was conducted. When the late Po- 
 mare had become a man, he had been declared king 
 according to the heathen fashion ; not by being 
 crowned, but by being wrapped in a girdle covered 
 with red feathers ; and this ceremony had been at- 
 tended by the slaughter of men, and had been fol- 
 lowed by the worshipping of the king as a god, as 
 he sat in the marae in Oro's wooden bed, between 
 Oro himself and Hiro the son of Oro, and god of 
 thieves. 
 
 How happy was this little prince, whose corona- 
 tion, instead of being stained with blood, was attend- 
 ed by the opening of prison doors, and the sacrifice 
 of the sweet incense of prayer and praise to the liv- 
 ing God ! 
 
222 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 BEFELL TAHITI IN THE LATTER DAYS OF THE FIRST MIS- 
 SIONARIES. 
 
 WE have observed God's wonderful dealings with 
 the land of Tahiti for nearly thirty years. But the 
 time is come when we must break off the history. 
 Yet we will not do so without giving a short account 
 of some of the principal events that happened after 
 the coronation of young Pomare. 
 
 The little king made great progress in his learning, 
 and showed such good dispositions, that the mission- 
 aries fondly hoped that he would become a blessing 
 to his kingdom ; but God thought fit to disappoint 
 their expectations. When six years and a half old, 
 he was attacked by a complaint that prevailed in 
 the islands at that time, and became dangerously ill : 
 he was immediately conveyed to Papao in Tahiti, 
 where his mother and aunt resided, and where he 
 lingered for three weeks. His dying struggles were 
 so painful to behold, that his relations threw a cloth 
 over him as he lay in the arms of Mr. Orsmorid, his 
 affectionate teacher. In a few minutes they removed 
 the cloth, and found that the spirit of the child had 
 fled. 
 
 Thus God cut off with a stroke the deaire of many 
 hearts, and the hope of the nation. All eyes were 
 
A1MATA GIUEEN. 223 
 
 now directed towards Aimata, his elder sister, who 
 became queen of Tahiti at the age of fifteen. She 
 soon assumed the name of Pomare Vahine, or the 
 female Pomare ; and her aunt, who once had borne 
 that name, was called by another name. The young 
 queen continued to live at Papao, near her father's 
 tomb. Her palace was a neat plastered house, situ- 
 ated beneath the shade of a lovely grove, and con- 
 sisting of a hall, four rooms on the ground floor, and 
 some above. Mr. Nott continued also to be the 
 preacher at court, but he no longer could preach in 
 the Royal Mission Chapel, as it fell into decay. The 
 part that remained was made into a school, and a 
 very neat oval chapel was built near it. 
 
 The queen, however, did not always reside at 
 home ; but was fond, as her father also had been, of 
 making voyages from island to island, and, like her 
 father, was accompanied by a train of the most dis- 
 orderly persons that could be found in the country. 
 She could read and write well, and was a very bright 
 girl ; but in her youth she was not so serious, nor 
 even steady, as to benefit her subjects by her ex- 
 ample. 
 
 In outward things the people of Tahiti made great 
 improvement. The road that has been already men- 
 tioned, was finished in a few years, chiefly by the 
 labor of persons who were sentenced to do hard work 
 by the judges. 
 
224 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 Once it was almost impossible to travel round Ta- 
 hiti on foot ; sometimes the traveller was obliged to 
 creep by the brink of frightful precipices, along nar- 
 row ledges of the rocks that overhung the sea ; some- 
 times he found his way blocked up by shrubs that 
 grew close to the sea-shore, or interrupted by streams 
 flowing from the mountains, while at every step his 
 feet were wounded by stones, or entangled in the 
 long grass. But the new gravel road, and the nar- 
 row bridges made of planks, placed across every 
 stream, enabled a person to go round the island with 
 pleasure, and to view at ease the lovely ocean on one 
 side, and the richly clothed mountains on the other. 
 So beautiful, indeed, were the prospects on each side, 
 especially the glimpses of the fertile valleys, that a 
 traveller might fancy himself passing through a park, 
 rather than along a common road. 
 
 Neither were persons now obliged always to go on 
 
 foot, for most of the chiefs had horses to ride, and 
 
 even the poorer people were often able to buy one 
 
 horse. Cows, as well as horses, became common in 
 
 i the islands. Sheep did not prosper, for they were 
 
 ' both worried by the dogs and injured by the heat. 
 
 The land was much more cultivated than it was 
 formerly. An attempt was made to grow corn, but 
 it did not succeed, for though the ears sprung up, 
 they were found empty at harvest-time, owing to 
 die heat of the climate. The coffee-plant, however, 
 
AGRICULTURE AND THE ARTS. 225 
 
 flourished, and coffee became a favorite drink of the 
 chiefs. 
 
 Sugar-canes always grew in the islands, but once 
 the natives did not know how to extract sugar from 
 them. Now that they had learned this art, they 
 made large plantations of them. The chief, Tati, as 
 well as some persons from Europe, made a quantity 
 of sugar, and sold it to the ships. 
 
 The cotton-plant was also a native of the island, 
 but of no use till the people had learned how to spin 
 and weave. Mr. and Mrs. Armitage had come from 
 England on purpose to instruct them in these arts. 
 They found them very idle at first, and were obliged 
 to coax them by rewards to learn. After much 
 trouble, they succeeded in teaching the people to 
 weave a coarse kind of calico, which is much 
 stronger than can be purchased from the ships. The 
 natives dye it blue, and are fond of wearing it. A 
 spinning-wheel is also now to be seen in many a Ta- 
 hitian cottage. Mr. Armitage returned to England, 
 after having spent a few years in various islands of 
 the South Seas. 
 
 The natives were also taught by the missionaries 
 to make ropes to sell to the ships, and to prepare 
 arrowroot, quantities of which are now to be pur- 
 chased in England at a very low price. 
 
 It is evident that the people became much more 
 industrious than before ; but though industry is good, 
 
 Night of Toil. -t K 
 
226 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 it is often accompanied and disgraced by the great 
 evil of covetousness. , This sin led many of the na- 
 tives to neglect school and chapel. Those who lived 
 at a distance from the missionaries, did not like to 
 leave their lands on, Saturday, to he present at the 
 Sabbath services. Such persons seldom came more 
 than - nee a month, and even those who attended 
 oftenei appeared less attentive than formerly, for 
 they were inclined to think of their property during 
 the service, instead of the unsearchable riches of 
 heaven. 
 
 There was another sin which ruined many, souls 
 in Tahiti : it was drunkenness. Though the native 
 stills had been long ago destroyed, yet the ships 
 brought spirits in abundance to the shores. As the 
 natives had now much property, the wicked sailors 
 took every means to induce them to exchange it for 
 spirits. They took spirits about the island to sell, 
 and set up shops along the shore. 
 
 The missionaries now determined to try to estab- 
 lish Temperance societies in the island, and to en- 
 gage the people to promise to leave off the use of 
 spirits. 
 
 The missionaries were accustomed to meet together 
 every three months to consult about plans for the 
 good of the people. At one of these quarterly meet- 
 ings, in August, 1833, it was resolved that each mis 
 gionary, at his own station, would endeavor to per 
 
TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. 227 
 
 euade the people to promise to abstain from drinking 
 spirits. Mr. Nott took a sheet of paper, and wrote 
 down his own name, and soon obtained a hundred 
 others in his district. 
 
 The queen, with her principal chiefs, was at this 
 time in Eimea Mr. Nott se* 't a messenger with a 
 letter, entreating her to set ai* example of temper- 
 ance to her subjects, and to permit her name to be 
 written down on the paper that he had prepared. 
 She sent a message in reply, desiring Mr. Nott not 
 to be in too much haste, and saying she would con- 
 sider the subject ; but that she thought her aunt, 
 and other chiefs, who took the Lord's supper, ought 
 to write down their names before she wrote down 
 hers. 
 
 Very soon both the queen's mother and aunt, and 
 many of the chiefs, permitted their names to be 
 written down, but the queen still delayed to add her 
 own 
 
 There was already a great change in the appear- 
 ance of the people, for drunkards were no longer fre- 
 quently to be seen staggering along the road. The 
 missionaries felt that the queen's example would in- 
 duce many more persons to leave off drinking spirits. 
 Their desire to obtain her name was soon gratified. 
 One evening, when Mr. JNTott and some of his people 
 were assembled for worship, a messenger entered the 
 chapel his countenance beamed with joy. He sur- 
 
228 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 prised the people present by exclaiming, " Brethren 
 and sisters, rejoice with me." All eyes were fixed 
 upon him. He then added, " I say, rejoice with me, 
 because the queen has given me orders to tell Notty 
 to add her name to those who belong to the Temper- 
 ance society." This news was received with delight 
 by all. They now thought that no drunkard would 
 dare to show his face in the islands. 
 
 Their expectations were not disappointed. A short 
 time afterwards the parliament assembled, and it 
 was then proposed that a law against drunkenness 
 should be made. At last all agreed to the following 
 law: 
 
 " If any person in Tahiti is found with even one 
 glass of spirits in his possession, he shall be obliged^ 
 if a native, to pay ten hogs ; and if a foreigner, ten 
 dollars, and be banished from the islands." 
 
 Some members of the parliament proposed, that 
 people should be allowed to keep a small quantity ol 
 spirits by them in case of sickness ; but the greater 
 part objected to this permission, because they knew 
 it would be made use of as an excuse for disobeying 
 the law. 
 
 The judges immediately began to make people ob- 
 serve the law. Tati the chief willingly spilt upon 
 tht ground a quantity of spirits that he possessed. 
 The spirits in the shops at Papeete, and other places, 
 were seized ; casks and calabashes were dashed to 
 
EFFECTS OF TEMPERANCE. 229 
 
 pieces, and the spirits within poured out. Notwith- 
 standing this law, sailors would sometimes run away 
 from their ships and sell spirits ; but when they were 
 discovered, they were punished. 
 
 Now that spirits were forbidden, people began 
 again to flock to school and chapef in every place. 
 The queen also expressed her desire that all persons 
 should attend chapel, and that all children should 
 go to school. Most of the people were glad to do 
 what their sovereign wished. 
 
 The missionaries were rejoiced to see so many 
 people listening to their instructions, and they offered 
 up earnest prayers to God to send his Spirit from on 
 high to convert those who were unconverted. 
 
 Many of the missionaries now felt a burning desire 
 for the salvation of souls. They never entered their 
 pulpits without using all their efforts to persuade the 
 people to flee from the wrath to come. Their labor 
 was not in vain in the Lord. 
 
 In the end of the summer of 1835, many people 
 in various parts of the island were converted, espe- 
 cially by the preaching of Mr. Nott at Papao. Some 
 even of the wild men and women of the mountains, 
 who had hitherto been disorderly in their conduct, 
 now began to show a concern for their souls ; and 
 many who had once known God, and who had wan 
 dered from him, seemed anxious to return to him 
 At first these people came to Mr. Nott in small par 
 
230 THE NIGHT OF TOIL 
 
 ties of three or four together ; but soon the number 
 increased, and sometimes even thirty came at once 
 to ask the way to the heavenly Zion. They came 
 at all times of the day, and even at night. They 
 assembled in the chapel, at any hour Mr. Nott ap- 
 pointed, to listen to his instructions. 
 
 The heart of this faithful minister was filled with 
 unspeakable joy, and many on earth, as well as in 
 heaven, partook of it ; especially the pious old peo- 
 ple in his congregation, who had often wept and 
 prayed for the ungodly natives. They came with 
 tottering steps along the beach, each leaning upon a 
 staff, that they might be present while Mr. Nott in 
 structed the newly converted in the chapel. Mr 
 Nott inquired why they wished to hear things re 
 peated that they had heard so often : they replied. 
 " God has answered our prayers for these people. 
 We remember your sermon on the text, ' Compel 
 them to come in, that my house may be filled.' "We 
 prayed that he would compel them to come in, and 
 we like to see them coming in. tell them to give 
 their chief attention to eternal things, and to stand 
 upon the Lord's side. They will understand more 
 quickly than we did, for they learned to read and 
 write, and to understand catechisms long ago, though 
 they have been deceived by the devil, and have neg- 
 lected their books ; yet they will now learn very 
 quickly." Thus these compassionate Christians re- 
 
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 joiced over the poor weeping prodigals, who were 
 lost, and now were found. 
 
 Among those who were now awakened were some 
 of the noble of the earth, even the queen, her hus- 
 band, and her mother. They all desired to he admit- 
 ted to the Lord's supper. The queen and her hus- 
 band were desired to write to Mr Nott an account 
 of the reasons which made them wish to become 
 communicants. The queen's mother was not desired 
 to write, but to come with other inquirers to the 
 chapel. They were all three soon afterwards per- 
 mitted to assemble round the table of the Lord. 
 
 The queen now showed a great desire that her 
 people should be instructed and converted. She 
 herself condescended to teach poor little girls to 
 read, and thus set an example of humility to all her 
 subjects, and to the queens of every land. 
 
 In July, 1836, the queen rejoiced to find that there 
 were only two openly ungodly persons in the whole 
 district of Pare, where she resided. 
 
 Mr. Davies was almost as much blessed in his 
 ministry at Papara, as Mr. JSTott was at Papao ; and 
 many other missionaries, in all the islands, met with 
 great success 
 
 Another event caused much joy to the natives 
 The translation of the whole Bible into Tahitian was 
 now completed. The greatest part of the work had 
 bren done by Mr. Nott. It was now his anxious 
 
232 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 desire to place the whole Bible in the hands of the 
 natives. He thought it would be best for him to go 
 to England, where learned persons would assist him 
 to correct the translation before it was printed, and 
 where skilful men would print it well and quickly. 
 His affectionate people were unwilling to part with 
 him, but he asked them how he could better spend 
 his few remaining years, and his failing strength, 
 than in helping to give them the word of life. 
 
 In February, 1836, Mr. Nott, accompanied by his 
 wife, set sail for England. He had, a few years be- 
 fore, visited his native country with the translation 
 of the New Testament, but now he felt that he was 
 visiting it for the last time. 
 
 He was the only one of the missionaries who first 
 sailed in the Duff, that was still living and laboring 
 in the South Seas, except Mr. Henry. How delight- 
 ful he now found it to behold the fruits of his life of 
 "toil. How different were those people, with whom 
 he was now parting for a time, from those ignorant 
 and miserable savages, among whom he had come 
 to dwell forty years before ! 
 
 When he arrived in England he presented his 
 translation to the directors of the London Mission- 
 ary Society, who caused three thousand copies to be 
 printed immediately and sent to Tahiti. Mr. Nott 
 remained in England about two years. He appeared 
 in Exeter Hall at the great meeting of the London 
 
JOYFUL OLD AGE. 233 
 
 Missionary Society in 1838, and was received with 
 the affection and veneration due to a man who had 
 hazarded his life for the name of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ. Acts 15 : 26. He showed to the assembly 
 a copy of the Tahitian Bible, and told them that he 
 bade them a last, though not an everlasting fare- 
 well, before his return to Tahiti. 
 
 Mr. Henry, though suffering much from the effects 
 of old age and toil, and the sultry air of the South 
 Seas, cannot be persuaded to forsake his beloved 
 flock to dwell in a more refreshing climate. He 
 fears lest the wolf should enter in and destroy them, 
 and, therefore, with his wife and children, spends his 
 latter years in watching for their souls. 
 
 Having now followed the faithful missionaries 
 through a long life of labor, let us stop an instant 
 and contemplate the happiness they enjoy in the 
 evening of their days. They look around, and be- 
 hold the children of Satan become the children oi 
 God, through their preaching. They share the joy 
 of Christ, who in heaven rejoices over the souls he 
 purchased with his blood. These missionaries have 
 not indeed suffered the wrath and curse of God, as 
 Christ did, from love to sinners ; but they have for- 
 eaken all, and borne shame, and endured toil, and 
 exposed their lives, and they have not lost their re- 
 ward ; neither shall they lose it. 
 
 And now let me speak a word to those young per- 
 
234 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 sons who have had the patience to accompany me 
 through the tedious, though well-rewarded labors of 
 the missionaries. Do you think it enough to admire 
 their perseverance, or even to rejoice at their success? 
 Is there no other effect which these events ought to 
 have upon our minds ? There are still numerous 
 dark corners of the earth, or rather I should say, the 
 earth still lies in darkness, and there are only a few 
 bright spots to be seen upon it. You were astomshed 
 at the cruelty of the Tahitians in murdering their 
 infants, and torturing their enemies ; but how would 
 your ears tingle at the account of the barbarous 
 deeds which are even now committed in heathen 
 lands ? 
 
 I know that many a youthful and compassionate 
 heart is grieved at hearing of these horrible practices ; 
 but it is not to cause pain that I allude to them 
 Could nothing be done to stop these atrocious cus* 
 toms, it would be better that they should never be 
 mentioned. But something may be done. Where 
 the Gospel is preached and believed, there Satan, the 
 author of all cruelty, loses his power. 
 
 But perhaps some inquire, " Can we, who are so 
 young and inexperienced who have no power, and 
 little property can we send the G-ospel to the hea- 
 then ?" 
 
 Yes, even you may bear a part in the blessed work. 
 There are, even now, such men in the world as those 
 
WHAT YOUTH CAN DO. 235 
 
 missionaries of whom you have been reading, whose 
 hearts are stirred up within them at the thought of 
 the misery of the poor pagans, and who are willing 
 to cross the ocean and to spend their days among 
 savages. Your slender offerings will assist to supply 
 them with food and raiment in those barbarous 
 lands. 
 
 that all who are in the bloom of youth, would 
 begin without delay to be the servants of God. It 
 is those who have devoted their whole lives to God, 
 who have been the instruments of the greatest good 
 in the world. Martin Oberlin, through whose labors 
 the inhabitants of five French villages were made 
 partakers of the blessings of the Gospel, passed sixty 
 years among them. It was in the morning of their 
 days that Mr. Nott and Mr. Henry devoted them- 
 selves to that service which has filled hundreds of 
 islands with peace and joy. 
 
 But though ive should neglect to serve God, or to 
 honor him, or to pray to him, yet his kingdom must 
 come ; for he has said, " I will gather all nations and 
 tongues, and they shall come and see my glory." 
 Isaiah 66 : 18. 
 
 How sad it is, that when Christ has purchased 
 with his blood an inheritance for the heathen, they 
 should live and die in ignorance of it. 
 
 Now hear a little parable. A certain man lived 
 all his days in pinching poverty, and at last actually 
 
236 THE NIGHT OF TOIL. 
 
 perished with hunger. After he was dead, it wag 
 discovered that a great sum of money had once been 
 left him, but that he had never been told of his good 
 fortune. It was a rich man who had left him this 
 "money, and with his dying breath he had strictly 
 charged his relations who surrounded his bed, to seek 
 for this poor man, and to convey to him, with their 
 own hands, the valuable gift. He had said to hig 
 relations, " I have not forgotten you in my will : I 
 have left you more than you can need you will 
 never miss the sum I have bequeathed to our poor 
 neighbor." But though it was true that every one 
 of the relations was amply provided for, they were 
 too much engrossed with their own ease and pleasure 
 to take the trouble to visit the poor man, or even to 
 send a messenger to inform him of the legacy. If 
 these selfish relations should ever hear of the sad fate 
 of that famished man, they would feel many a pang 
 of conscience at the recollection of their own con- 
 'duct; their sleep would be sometimes troubled by 
 the thought of his expiring agonies, and his emaci- 
 ated body, and they would fancy they saw their de- 
 parted friend frowning upon them, and reproaching 
 them with their neglect. 
 
 
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