nfluence was exerted to prevent his master from becoming a
Christian. I had fortunately arranged to transact some business with
him about this time; so, leaving the missionary addressing the people
under a cocoa-nut tree, I hurried up to the king's village, and without
much difficulty persuaded Hoolan to accompany me on board. I kept him
there as long as I possibly could. Meanwhile the missionary sought out
the chief, and found him willing to listen while he unfolded the story
of the gospel. A long time the two conversed; and for the first time
the benighted savage heard the message of salvation. Gradually the
truth interested him, and he began to turn a more favourable ear to the
missionary's exhortations than he had ever before done.

"Ah, would that I had Vihala with me," he would frequently exclaim to
the missionary. "When you are gone he would instruct me further in the
wonderful things I hear." But neither Vihala nor Alea were to be found.
He had driven them forth, there could be no doubt, by resolving to
unite his daughter to a heathen chief; and yet was Vihala free from
blame in carrying off the young princess? The heathens said that they
had committed suicide, and were drowned, but judging from Vihala's
generally consistent character, I felt sure that that was not the case.

From the first I had felt myself drawn very much towards the venerable
missionary. His gentleness, yet firmness of manner, his utter negation
of self and devotedness to his Master's cause were very remarkable. His
tender love for his daughter, too, was very beautiful. She returned it
with the deepest affection and devotion. Accustomed as I had been to
the endearments of a happy, well-ordered home, I was sensibly touched by
it, and took every opportunity of being in their company. It may appear
curious that three days had passed before I learned the name of the good
old man. Everybody called him the missionary, spoke of him as the
missionary,--thrice-honoured name! In the same way he knew me only as
the mate. He had a house assigned to him by the chief, which, by being
partitioned off into three chambers, was made tolerably habitable. I
was one evening drinking tea there with him and his daughter, when I
happened to mention my name.

"What! are you any relative to that devoted missionary, John Harvey?" he
asked. When I told him that I was his brother, "Ah, that accounts for
your having so friendly a feeling for missionarie