. Mission life in the islands of the Pacific : being a narrative of the life and labours of the Rev. A. Buzacott. e, Ithought that with canvas I could certainly make abetter one. Mr. Williams was anxious I should try,as he had tried and failed; and to my mortification, Ialso failed, just as he had done, by making a passagefor the air through both chambers of the bellows,instead of only in the upper one—the under chamberto supply the upper with air through a valve. WhenMr. Williams visited us again, he told us that whenat home, he had ripped open a pair of bellows to see,as he jocosely expresse
. Mission life in the islands of the Pacific : being a narrative of the life and labours of the Rev. A. Buzacott. e, Ithought that with canvas I could certainly make abetter one. Mr. Williams was anxious I should try,as he had tried and failed; and to my mortification, Ialso failed, just as he had done, by making a passagefor the air through both chambers of the bellows,instead of only in the upper one—the under chamberto supply the upper with air through a valve. WhenMr. Williams visited us again, he told us that whenat home, he had ripped open a pair of bellows to see,as he jocosely expressed it, where the wind lay ; butlong before this, I too had discovered our mistake, andwith goats skins, had made a serviceable pair ofbellows. RAROTONGA, AND REV. JOHN WILLIAMS. 35 The old iron bought at Tahiti now proved of greatvalue in the completion of the schooner, and in build-ing a new mission-house. Time flew past more swiftly than our ship-builderdesired. He had hoped to have finished his schoonerand to have reached Raiatea before the new mission-aries arrived. But with only natives as workmen, and. MESSENGER OF PEACE. with the timber still growing in the dense forests tillit was actually wanted, delay was unavoidable. TheRarotongan method of preparing planks was mostwasteful. No matter whether the log was large orsmall, it was split into two, and adzed to the requiredthinness. Cocoa-nut fibre was used instead of oakum,sails were constructed out of native matting, and the -26 MEMORIALS OF THE REV. A. BUZACOTT. »j little schooner, when launched, presented a very grati-fying appearance. Her first trip vi^as to Aitutaki,about 150 miles distant; and this trial so satisfied herbuilder, that on his return, he left Rarotonga vi^ith hiswife and family and several natives, and sailed forRaiatea. There can be little doubt that they owed theirsafe voyage quite as much to the special care of theLord of winds and waves as to the sea-worthiness ofthe schooner. God gave them a fair
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