and as here they must take a definite part, they (the great majority
who are not yet disposed to decide for good) are made manifest, and
the difficulty of displacing evil customs is more apparent.'

In fact, these amiable, docile Baurese seemed to have little
manliness or resolution of character, and Sumaro, a scholar of 1857,
was especially disappointing, for he pretended to wish to come and
learn at Lifu, but only in order to get a passage to Gera, where he
deserted, and was well lectured for his deceit.

The Gera people were much more warlike and turbulent, and seemed to
have more substance in them, though less apt at learning. Patteson
spent the night on shore at Perua, a subsidiary islet in the bay,
sleeping in a kind of shed, upon two boards, more comfortably than
was usual on these occasions. Showing confidence was one great
point, and the want of safe anchorage in the bay was much regretted,
because the people could not understand why the vessel would not come
in, and thought it betokened mistrust. Many lads wished to join the
scholars, but of those who were chosen, two were forced violently
overboard by their friends, and only two eventually remained, making
a total of twelve pupils for the winter school at Lifu, with five
languages between them --seven with the addition of the Nengone and
Lifu scholars.

'You see,' writes Patteson on June 10, on the voyage, 'that our
difficulty is in training and organising nations, raising them from
heathenism to the life, morally and socially, of a Christian. This
is what I find so hard. The communication of religious truth by word
of mouth is but a small part of the work. The real difficulty is to
do for them what parents do for their children, assist them to--nay,