of tableau vivant of you all. That helps me to realize the home
life; so do the photographs, they help in the same way. But your
letters, and the fact that I think so much about them, and about you,
are my real helps.'

The voyage ended on the 7th of December. It was the last made under
the guidance of the Bishop of New Zealand, and, alas! the last return
of the first 'Southern Cross.'




CHAPTER IX.

MOTA AND ST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE, KOHIMARAMA. 1859-1862.



With the year 1860 a new period, and one far more responsible and
eventful, began. After working for four years under Bishop Selwyn's
superintendence, Coleridge Patteson was gradually passing into a
sphere of more independent action; and, though his loyal allegiance
to his Primate was even more of the heart than of the letter, his
time of training was over; he was left to act more on his own
judgment; and things were ripening for his becoming himself a Bishop.
He had nearly completed his thirty-third year, and was in his fullest
strength, mental and bodily; and, as has been seen, the idea had
already through Bishop Selwyn's letters become familiar to his
family, though he himself had shrunk from entertaining it.