to succeed him, to say nothing of possible casualties, climate, &c.

'Good-bye, my dear Uncle; kind love to all.

'Your loving nephew and pupil,

'J. C. PATTESON.'


The three women and the two babies were disposed of in separate
houses, but their husbands, with thirty-nine other Melanesians, four
Norfolk Islanders, two printers, Mr. Dudley and Mr. Patteson, made up
the dinner-party every day in the hall of St. John's College. 'Not a
little happy I feel at the head of my board, with two rows of merry,
happy-looking Melanesians on either side of me!'

The coughs, colds, and feverish attacks of these scholars were the
only drawback; the slightest chill made them droop; and it was a
subject of joy to have any day the full number in hall, instead of
one or two lying ill in their tutor's own bed-chamber.

On the 29th of December came the exceeding joy of the arrival of the
Judge and Mrs. Martin, almost straight from Feniton, ready to talk
untiringly of everyone there. On the New Year's day of 1859 there
was a joyful thanksgiving service at Taurarua for their safe return,
at which all the best Church people near were present, and when John
Cho made his first Communion.

On the 20th these much-loved friends came to make a long stay at the
College, and the recollections they preserved of that time have thus