avoid the necessity of the schooner running 200 or 300 miles to
leeward and having to make it up again. I have slept ashore twice in
the Banks Islands, but no other white man has done so, and that makes
our course very clear, as they have none of the injuries usually
committed by traders, &c., to revenge.

'Good-bye once more, my dearest Uncle,

'Your affectionate and grateful Nephew,

'J. C. PATTESON.'


The calmness of mind respecting his father which is here spoken of
was not perpetual, and his grief broke out at times in talks with his
young friend and companion, Mr. Dudley, as appears by this extract:--

'I remember his talking to me more than once on the subject of his
father, and especially his remarking on one occasion that his friends
were pressing him to come out there oftener, and suggesting, when he
seemed out of health and spirits, that he was not taking care of
himself; but that it was the anguish he endured, as night after night
he lay awake thinking of his father gradually sinking and craving for
him, and cheerfully resigning him, that really told upon him. I know
that I obtained then a glimpse of an affection and a depth of sorrow
such as perfectly awed me, and I do not think I have witnessed
anything like it at all, either before or since. It was then that he
seemed to enter into the full meaning of those words of our Lord, in
St. Mark x. 29-30, i.e., into all that the "leaving" there spoken of
involved.'