. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. RUNNING BEFORE THE TRADE-WINDS. to 173° west. Consequently the course of the yacht was a httle northof west, and gave the party a pleasant run before the north-east trade-wind, the crew having hardly anything to do from the time the last 100 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. peak of the Society Islands disappeared until the mountains of Samoacame
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. RUNNING BEFORE THE TRADE-WINDS. to 173° west. Consequently the course of the yacht was a httle northof west, and gave the party a pleasant run before the north-east trade-wind, the crew having hardly anything to do from the time the last 100 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. peak of the Society Islands disappeared until the mountains of Samoacame into view. All the world over, there is no more delightful sailingthan in the trade-winds. A ship bowls along for ten, twenty, or perhaps thirty days, without squaring ayard or changing a brace, and allthe time she carries every stitch ofher canvas, and the water beneathher bows is a bank of foam. During the voyage our young friends busied themselves as usual something- about the. m learning DR. COAN, MISSIONARY TO HAWAII. regions whither they Avere bound,as well as perfecting their informa-tion about what they were leavingbehind. The conversation turnedone day upon the work of the mis-sionaries in the South Pacific in re-deeming the inhabitants of the isl-ands from their former conditionof barbarism. The missionaries have not re-ceived half the credit they deserve, said Doctor Bronson, in reply toa question which Fred propounded. It is the certainmen who have had commercial relations with these islands to deridethe missionaries and throw ridicule on their work, and sometimes trav-ellers fall into the same way of talking. There are idlers and uselessmen and women among the missionaries, just as there are in every oc-cupation in life, but this circumstance does not justify the denunciationthat has been heaped upon the entire body. Frank asked why it was that so many men engaged in commercewere opposed to the missionaries. Principally for the reason
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