I mentioned that one of the missionaries spoke a few words of English. So great was his desire to acquire a further knowledge of the language, that all day long he was engaged in learning it from one or other of us. He first obtained a large vocabulary of substantives.  These he noted down in a pocket-book which he cherished with great care, and then he began upon verbs.  These are more difficult to obtain, when neither master nor pupil understands the other's language.  However, by dint of various signs, he obtained a good number, of which he began very soon to make use.  We got on talking by degrees, till we really did understand each other very fairly.  By degrees we gleaned from him the following narrative:--