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they sat down before, and laid siege to the strong holds of Satan. Conscious of their own weakness, but trusting in the Captain of the Lord's hosts, they waited in faith for the time when, at the blowing of the Gospel trumpet, the walls of idolatry should fall down, and open a way for them into the hearts of the people. May we not apply to this Missionary station almost the very words of the prophet? "The daughter of Zion is found as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers. Except the Lord of Hosts had left this small remnant, this nation should have been as Sodom, and this people should have been like unto Gomorrah."

Sometime in the years 1802 and 1803, Mr. John Turnbull resided at Otaheite for commercial purposes, and afterwards published in three volumes a work entitled, “A Voyage round the World, in the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804," which contains much information respecting the islands in the Pacific Ocean. His narrative confirms in every respect, the reports of the Missionaries in their journals. He represents some of the natives as men whose open profession is of such abomination, that the laudable delicacy of our language will not admit it to be mentioned. "These are

called by the natives Mahoos. Otoo himself is a monster of debauchery. Their pollution in this respect beggars all description; my mind averts from dwelling on an object which recals so many images of disgust and horror. Their wickedness is enough to call down the immediate judgment of heaven-unless their manners change, I pronounce

that they will not long remain in the number of nations. The sword of disease is no less effectual than the waters of a deluge.

"With regard to health, peace of mind, and vigour of body, the Missionaries stand on high ground, and must appear to them as under the protection of heaven, whilst they fall around them like rotten sheep. Mrs. Eyre, now upwards of seventy years of age, was superintending her domestic affairs with a deal of ease, content, and happiness."

His account of the Arreoys is yet more horrible than that given by the Missionaries: "They are," says he, "a society so licentious and profligate, as to call loudly for punishment, even from divine vengeance." He furnishes many details which prove the treachery, cruelty, pollution, and drunkenness of the natives, particularly of the chiefs. The narrative, though well arranged, is too disgusting in its circumstances to be repeated here. The Otaheitans, he says, are thieves in every sense of the word, yet the most hypocritical flatterers, who will fawn upon a person just in a degree proportioned to his means of returning flattery with gifts. He states a case, wherein a chief sent for a particular friend, and after caressing him, and sending him away delighted with his generous affability, despatched several of his servants after him, who struck him dead with stones, and took his body to Pomarre as a human sacrifice, which had been demanded of this treacherous chief. In one chapter of his work, under the head of Stupidity of

Otoo, he introduces the following observations : "It must be a very long period of time, before the Otaheitans can arrive at the very first elements of civil life; a language reduced to regularity, and written characters, so as to be grammatically learnt and transmitted. There are but few of them can be taught to pronounce in any resemblance, the letters of the alphabet. Otoo could indeed compass a few, but there are many letters which neither he nor any other Otaheitan could articulate. Such are our C, K, S, Q, X, and G. V they pronounce B, and C they soften into T. Thus Captain Vancouver, is Taptain Bancouber, and Captain Cook, Taptain Tootee. The royal Admiral is Rammirell. Very good fellow, very bad fellow, were the plainest words that Otoo could articulate; haremi de rum, bring hither the rum, and a very few others. He would sometimes send to the Missionaries for pen, ink, and paper, but used them as a child, making scrawls and scratches. On some occasions I have been sent for to witness his proficiency, but I ever found him more attentive to a book of pictures than to his reading and writing. He could indeed very imperfectly form some of the letters of the alphabet, but it was very imperfectly, and I am of opinion that there are very small hopes of improving the natives through his example, or that of any of his family. When he had any message to communicate to shipping, he usually applied to Mr. Jefferson, or some other of the Missionaries, to transmit it by the paper parow or note; the purport of this was usually a demand

for yavva Brittanna." Speaking of the Missionaries, Mr. Turnbull says, "They apparently lived together in the greatest love and harmony, and all of them present an example of industry. Their situation, however, is by no means so comfortable as many of our countrymen may be inclined to imagine; for as their stock of European articles decreases, they must proportionably lose their influence over the natives.

They possess a public garden very well stocked and cultivated, and the greater part of them a private one, not much inferior. The space enclosed within the palisades of the public garden, is about four acres; it seems natural to imagine, that its beauty and utility would have acted as a stimulus to the natives to imitate their industry. The indolence of the Otaheitans, however, is beyond the cure of any common remedy. In the gardens of the Missionaries are lemon, lime, orange, peach, and citron trees, in great number and perfection: they have moreover patches of the tarra root, Indian corn, and indigo. The natives respect the Missionaries, and in some respect regard them with astonishment. Their comparative purity of manners, their indifference to their women, and their peaceable and upright deportment, are subjects of wonder; and as their minds unfold to the knowledge of morals, they will continue to increase in their esteem and regard for these men. The ignorance of these people is indeed lamentable." "One Sunday evening Mr. Jefferson requested permission to exhort Otoo and Tearrenavoroa,

with all their followers; Otoo sent a messenger to me on the occasion, saying that he wished to see me. I accordingly went, and found Mr. Scott and Mr. Jefferson in the act of exhortation. Their congregation might amount to near fifty. Upon its conclusion, I demanded of Otoo what he wanted with me. He asked me, upon the departure of the Missionaries, whether it was all true as they had preached? I replied in the affirmative, that it was strictly so according to my own belief, and that of all the wiser and better part of my countrymen. He demanded of me where Jehovah lived? I pointed to the heavens. He said he did not believe it. His brother was, if possible, still worse. Eddea was looking on, with a kind of haughty and disdainful indifference. It was all bavery or falsehood, adding, they would not believe unless they could see; and observed, we could bring down the sun and moon by means of our quadrant; why could we not bring down the Saviour by similar means." Pomarre he states to have been six feet four inches in height, remarkably stout made, and well proportioned; his son, Otoo, upwards of six feet two inches, and equally well made. The father and the son, Eddea, her gallant, Tatoa-noce, and all the royal family, at different times visited Mr. Turnbull's vessel, and generally got very drunk by drinking the yavva Brittanna, as they call the rum they get from Europeans. Their conduct was often very outrageous and troublesome during their intoxication.

Pomarre seemed to labour under a general de

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