receptacle of all his moans and complaints, yet I know, poor fellow!
it is much owing to the disease upon him.'

In spite of his fretfulness and exactions, the young man, meeting not
with spoiling, but with true kindness, responded to the touch. Lady
Martin tells us: 'I shall never forget dear Mr. Patteson's
thankfulness when, after a long season of reserve, he opened his
heart to him, and told him how, step by step, this sinfulness of sin
had been brought home to him. He knew he had done wrong in his
heathen boyhood, but had put away such deeds when he was baptized,
and had almost forgotten the past, or looked on it as part of
heathenism. But in his illness, tended daily and hourly by our dear
friend, his conscience had become very tender. He died in great
peace.'

His death is mentioned in the following letter to Sir John
Coleridge:--


'March 26, 1860. '(This day 5 years I left home. It was a Black
Monday indeed.)

'My dear Uncle,--At three this morning died one of my old scholars,
by name George Selwyn Simeona, from Nengone. He was here for his
third time; for two years a regular communicant, having received a
good deal of teaching before I knew him. He was baptized three years
ago. I did not wish to bring him this time, for it was evident that
he could not live long when we met last at Nengone, and I told him
that he had better not come with us; but he said, "Heaven was no
farther from New Zealand than from Nengone;" and when we had pulled