do God service. He will be contented to work under any one who may
be appointed Bishop of Melanesia (or any other title), or to be the
Bishop himself. If I judge truly, he has no ambitious views, and
only desires that he may be made as useful as his powers enable him
to be, whether in a high or subordinate situation.'

Nothing could be more true than this. There was a general sense of
the probability that Mr. Patteson must be the first Missionary
Bishop; but he continued to work on at the immediate business, always
keeping the schemes and designs which necessarily rose in his mind
ready to be subjected to the control of whomsoever might be set over
him. The cold had set in severely enough to make it needful to carry
off his 'party of coughing, shivering Melanesians' before Easter, and
the 'Southern Cross' sailed on the 18th. Patteson took with him a
good store of coffee, sugar, and biscuits, being uncertain whether he
should or should not again remain at Lifu.

In the outward voyage he only landed his pupils there, and then went
on to the Banks Islands, where Sarawia was returned at Vanua Lava,
and after Mr. Patteson had spent a pleasant day among the natives,
Mota was visited next after.

'May 24.--On Monday, at 3 P.M., we sailed from Port Patteson across
to Mota. Here I landed among 750 people and the boat returned to the
vessel. She was to keep up to windward during the night and call for
me the next morning. I walked with my large following, from the
teach, up a short steep path, to the village, near to which, indeed
only 200 yards off, is another considerable village. The soil is
excellent; the houses good--built round the open space which answers
to the green in our villages, and mighty banyan trees spreading their