'However, this did not satisfy his countrymen. As if I had not
enough to do, old Wi comes with a request from the folks at Orakei
that I would be their "minita," and take the management of the
concern. Rather rich, is it not? I said, of course, that I was
minita for the islanders. "Oh, let the Bishop take another man for
that, you are the minister for us." He is, you know, wonderfully
tatooed, and a great object of curiosity to the boys!

Before many days had passed, there had occurred the first case of
that fatal tetanus, which became only too well known to those
concerned in the Mission. Of course, all weapons were taken from the
scholars; but one of the San Cristoval boys, named Tohehammai,
fetched one of his own arrows out of Mr. Dudley's room to exchange
with an English lad for a shirt, and as he was at play, carrying the
arrow in his left hand behind his back and throwing a stick like a
spear with the other, he sharply pricked his right arm, within the
elbow, against the point of the arrow; but thinking nothing of the
hurt, and knowing that the weapons were forbidden playthings, he said
nothing for twelve days, but then complained of stiffness in the arm.
Two doctors happened to be at the college that day; one thought it
rheumatism, the other mentioned the word tetanus, but for three days
more the arm was merely stiff, it was hung in a sling, and the boy
went about as usual, until, on the fifteenth day, spasmodic
twitchings in the arm came on.

Liniment of chloroform was rubbed in, and the boy was kept under
chloroform, but in vain; the next day his whole body was perfectly
rigid, with occasional convulsions. About 4 p.m. his throat had
become contracted, and the endeavour to give him nourishment brought
on convulsive attacks. The Bishop came at 8. p.m., and after another