San Cristoval.

'Of the Nengone people I could say much more. The two young women
(married) and the two young unmarried men had been under Mr.
Nihill's instruction two or three years, baptized, and were regular
communicants while at the College. Simeona was baptized on the same
day as his infant son, after he had been with us five months. He and
the other four were confirmed at the College chapel, and he
afterwards received the Holy Communion with the rest.

'Kowine, a lad of seventeen, is not baptized, though well instructed.
We were not wholly satisfied about him. Of the knowledge of them all
I can speak with the utmost confidence. They know more a great deal
than most candidates for confirmation in a well-regulated English
parish. It was delightful to work with them. We wrote Bible
history, which has reached about fifty sheets in MS. in small
handwriting, bringing the history to the time of Joshua; very many
questions and answers, and translated ninety pages of the Prayer
Book, including Services for Infant and Adult Baptism, Catechism,
Burial Service, &c.

'It is most interesting work, though not easy, and much of it will no
doubt be altered when we come to know the language thoroughly well.
This island of Nengone (called also Maro and Britannia Island)
contains about 6,500 inhabitants, of whom some profess Christianity,
while the remainder are still fighting and eating one another, though
accessible to white people.

'We hope to have time to see something of the heathen population,
though the London Mission Society having re-occupied the island, we