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nANDS WITH OR WITHOUT TIE GOSPEL
M Jpoiu, one Of he Navigator kiandS.


November :, 1899.


N DEAR S'IR-Though it is very unccr.
Mn when an opportunity of sending this
ktcr to YOU will offer, still shall write


bu, because these Pacific islands are in
8nc points of view, among the most ill.,
0rcsting places we are to visit : more cs-
mciaIIy to the Christian and the friend o!
Iissions as one of the most important
Experiments is being made among them


Il which the attention of man can be di-
nctcd. We have already visited many
II the small coral islands which form the
&angcrous Archipelago and which are
Inhabited by race of cruel and blood
hirsty canniDals, either entirely Goddess


4 worshippcrs of spirits and idols: some
&tircly naked. other clothed with cir
"a of leaves and all alike destitute either
G intelligence or virtue. But although


- missionaries have ever been sent a.
mpng them, and the world in genera! i,
i&lecd almost ignorant that any such is
lids do exist, still among the more west


y of the group, we found something like
4 Glawning of better things natives from


hhiti had come among them. bringing
NTH them tidings of another faith and
u one of the isles, Raraka. | found col
My of thirty persons, all Tahitians and
@rstians, who Of their own accord had left
ikir natirc island, certainly one of the
npst lovely spots on earth, to reside on a
arc and lonely coral reef, scarce elevated
sbovc the surface of the sea native teach
ee were with them, and from this isle as
pm central point, will doubtless issue
cams of knowledge to cnlightcn the


rk spots around it, As to Tahiti itself,
Took great pains to make myself ac-
GBainted with its condition, and from the
Rgth of my stay and my extensive ac-
qElntancc with both missionaries and ma
&cs, believe that have formed correct


mon of it.. The amount of good that


been effected there by missionary la
III is tNCALcULABLE people w no twen-
Wycars ago were immersed in the dark
81 night of pagansm, worshipping with
~ obscene and cruel rites. demons and
Mbls and sacrificing on their bloody al,ars


bodies of their murdered fcllow-bc-
&s now assemble on the Sabbath in
Mlscs which their own hands have built,
"A listen to the preached gospel in their
oFn language, and to offer, with a solem-
my which | never saw before, their pray
@ and praises to the Lord that made the
Mycns; they who few years since had
~ alphabet or written language, are able,
@ost without Il single exception, to read
u Testament, hymn-books and msccI-
mcous works, which are now found in
eNry habtation. I'm every village you
W find large, commodious and hand
me church, and at no great distance its
accompanying school-housc regular
&c OF printed laws has taken the place


the arbitrary and absolute will OF the


lels, and not single vestigc now re-


ms of what Pomarc, the former king,


eXpressively termed "Tahiti's foolish


t's. TO say that the morals of the


ople are good, would be too much IL


n'lousness is almost universal but this
almost the only crime found among


m' and it would be folly to expect in