almost force upon them--the practical application of Christian
doctrine. This descends to the smallest matters, washing, scrubbing,
sweeping, all actions of personal cleanliness, introducing method and
order, habits of industry, regularity, giving just notions of
exchange, barter, trade, management of criminals, division of labour.
To do all this and yet not interfere with the offices of the chief,
and to be the model and pattern of it, who is sufficient for it?'

On June 16, Mr. Patteson was landed at Lifu, for his residence there,
with the five chiefs, his twelve boys, and was hospitably welcomed to
the large new house by the Samoan. He and four boys slept in one of
the corner rooms, the other eight lads in another, the Rarotongan
teacher, Tutoo, and his wife in a third. The central room was
parlour, school, and hall, and as it had four unglazed windows, and
two doors opposite to each other, and the trade-wind always blowing,
the state of affairs after daylight was much like that which
prevailed in England when King Alfred invented lanterns, while in the
latter end of June the days were, of course, as short as they could
be on the tropic of Capricorn, so that Patteson got up in the dark at
5-30 in the morning.

At 7 the people around dropped in for prayers, which he thought it
better not to conduct till his position was more defined. Then came
breakfast upon yams cooked by being placed in a pit lined with heated
stones, with earth heaped over the top. Mr. and Mrs. Tutoo, with
their white guest, sat at the scrap of a table, 'which, with a small
stool, was the only thing on four legs in the place, except an
occasional visitor in the shape of a pig.' Then followed school.
Two hundred Lifu people came, and it was necessary to hold it in the
chapel. One o'clock, dinner on yams, and very rarely on pig or a