Letters and sketches from the New Hebrides. . ee the Ship, when the crySail O ! gladdened our ears. I made my appeal tothe man whom I considered the softest ; but he wasrather obtuse, until I hinted thatthere would be good pay for everytree cut down. Then he under-stood all my sentiments thoroughly,and loudly declared that it was ashame that MissI the Woman couldnot see her own Vessel, when shewas working for them all the yearround ; but that It would not behis fault, if she did not get a sightof It very soon ! Others followed,when they saw what Taia forty trees, I think, werecut dow
Letters and sketches from the New Hebrides. . ee the Ship, when the crySail O ! gladdened our ears. I made my appeal tothe man whom I considered the softest ; but he wasrather obtuse, until I hinted thatthere would be good pay for everytree cut down. Then he under-stood all my sentiments thoroughly,and loudly declared that it was ashame that MissI the Woman couldnot see her own Vessel, when shewas working for them all the yearround ; but that It would not behis fault, if she did not get a sightof It very soon ! Others followed,when they saw what Taia forty trees, I think, werecut down. So that we had the |_first view of the Paragon from ourown verandah; and we see thesun setting there in glory, from April till the endof July. John was not at all ambitious of the view of theParagon, and had often assured us that, if theDayspring were in Aneityum Harbour during thathurricane, we need never expect to sec her, as nothingcould save her (which, alas, proved to be the case !),but that if she were in the open sea there might be. THE SECONDSPRING. D.\Y- 152 THE SHIPWRECK AND THE ANGEL-CHILD a chance. The Natives, however, all had the firmidea that the Vessel of the Worship could never godown ; and 1 too hoped with them, till we heard byMr. Watts boat, on the last day of February, thatit had during the hurricane gone on the reef inAneityum Harbour. Our Natives all cried about itlike children for weeks on end, and they often takefits of doing so since ; while my Girls went to theStudy and wailed for a whole evening before thephoto of it hanging there, and this they have keptup, going periodically. I had great difficulty intaking in the sad news, and John was distressinglysad. The Dayspring had become part and parcel ofourselves, and none of us could imagine the NewHebrides Mission without its little Ship— to wait onHim, and do His work still as of old. Still, evenin this severity there mingled goodness ; for itcould never have been wrecked at a better place ortime.
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