Several days passed away, and our guests showed that they were recovering from the effects of their voyage.  All this time we could not tell from whence they had come, or where they were going.  They tried to explain, but we could not understand them.  They were coming from some Christian island, and they were probably going to one; or, perhaps, they were native missionaries anxious to carry the gospel of salvation to their benighted fellow-beings among the inhabitants of Polynesia.  We soon came to the conclusion that some were missionaries, who had their wives and children with them.  One was a chief, who was escorting them, and the rest were the seamen of the canoe.  Mr Brand arrived at this conclusion.