Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . COTTAGE OF MESSRS. NMSBKT AND TURNSB AT TANNA, IN l?+2. Page ^—. [NTBRIOB OF A SAMOAN HOUSE. Page OUR RESCUE. 67 the chiefs soon came off to the vessel. They brought apig as a peace-offering, and told us how grieved theywere at what had happened. We told them that itwas very grievous to us too—that -it was our wish tolive among them till our hairs were gray, to tellthem about Jesus, and to lead them and their chil-dren in the way to heaven, but that now we weredriven from their shores. Not one
Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . COTTAGE OF MESSRS. NMSBKT AND TURNSB AT TANNA, IN l?+2. Page ^—. [NTBRIOB OF A SAMOAN HOUSE. Page OUR RESCUE. 67 the chiefs soon came off to the vessel. They brought apig as a peace-offering, and told us how grieved theywere at what had happened. We told them that itwas very grievous to us too—that -it was our wish tolive among them till our hairs were gray, to tellthem about Jesus, and to lead them and their chil-dren in the way to heaven, but that now we weredriven from their shores. Not one said, stay. In-deed they could not. They said that they expectedto be driven out to sea as soon as the vessel said he thought of fleeing to Niua, andbegged us to go there. We reminded him that ourteachers there too were opposed by the disease-makers, and that we had little hope of being able tosettle anywhere, for the present, nearer than promised, however, that they might expect ourvessel to come again, that we would love them still,and pray for them, and do everything we could toresume the mission at some future time, if they haddone
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