papers and pencils, and simply to to listen. I remember one evening
in particular. For some little time past the conduct of the men,
especially the married men, had not been at all satisfactory. The
married couples had the upper house, and John Cho, Simeona, and Kapua
had obtained a draught-board, and had regularly given themselves up
to draught-playing, night and day, neglecting all the household
duties they were expected to perform, to the great annoyance of their
wives, who had to carry the water, and do their husbands' work in
other ways as well their own. This became soon known to Mr.
Patteson, and without saying anything directly to the men, he took
one evening as his subject in chapel those words of our Lord, "If thy
hand or thy foot offend thee," &c., and spoke as you know he did
sometimes speak, and evidently was entirely carried out of himself,
using the Nengonese with a freedom which showed him to be thinking in
it as he went on, and with a face only to be described as "the face
of an angel." We all sat spellbound. John Cho, Simeona, and the
other walked quietly away, without saying a word, and in a day or two
afterwards I learnt from John that he had lain awake that night
thinking over the matter, that fear had come upon him, lest he might
be tempted again, and jumping up instantly, he had taken the draught-
board from the place where he had left it and had cast it into the
embers of their fire.

'Many and many a time was I the recipient of his thoughts, walking
with him up and down the lawn in front of the cottage buildings of an
evening, when he would try to talk himself clear. You may imagine
what a willing listener I was, whatever he chose to talk upon, and he
often spoke very freely to me, I being for a long time his only
resident white companion. It was not long before I felt I knew his
father well, and reverenced him deeply. He never was tired of