on one foot.

On Whit Sunday, after Holy Communion on board, the party went on
shore, and prayed for, 'I cannot say with the people of Vanua Lava.'

And on Whit Monday the house was set up 'in a most lovely spot,' says
Mr. Dudley, 'beneath the shade of a gigantic banyan tree, the trunk
and one long horizontal branch of which formed two sides of as
beautiful a picture as you would wish to look upon; the sloping bank,
with its cocoa-nut, bread-fruit, and other trees, forming the base of
the picture; and the coral beach, the deep, clear, blue tropical
ocean, with others of the Banks Islands, Valua, Matlavo, and
Uvaparapara, in the distance, forming the picture itself.'

At least a hundred natives came to help, pulling down materials from
their own houses to make the roof, and delighted to obtain a bit of
iron, or still better of broken glass, to shave with. In the
afternoon, the master of the said house, using a box for a desk,
wrote: 'Our little house will, I think, be finished to-night; anyhow
we can sleep in it, if the walls are but half ready; they are merely
bamboo canes tied together. We sleep on the floor boarded and well
raised on poles, two feet and more from the ground--beds are
superfluous here.'

Here then was the first stake of the Church's tabernacle planted in
all Melanesia!

The boards of the floor had been brought from New Zealand, the heavy
posts on which the plates were laid were cut in Vanua Lava, and the
thatch was of cocoa-nut leaves, the leaflets ingeniously bound