Having derived much advantage from a few months' residence in New South Wales, we returned, with recruited vigour, to our delightful labours, after an absence of about eight months, and were cordially welcomed by our beloved brethren and people.

In April, 1822, we received letters from Papeiha and Vahapata, stating the dangers to which they had been exposed, and the partial success that had attended their efforts, and requesting that two more labourers might be sent to assist them. The vessel which brought these had touched at Aitutaki, on her way from the Society Islands to New South Wales, by which we had sent books, presents, and letters. With these Faaori, a native of Raiatea, was sent on shore. The idolaters crowded around him, seized him, led him before the marae, and delivered him formally up to their gods. Faaori, looking up at an immense idol, struck it, and said to the idolaters, “Why do you not burn this evil spirit, and this marae? They are Satan's: why do you suffer them to remain? What you are now regarding is all deceit.” The idolaters replied, “We are all ignorant; we have been kept in darkness by Satan a long time, and we do not know the truth.” Faaori answered, “This is the truth that your teachers have brought you; receive it, and be saved.” Upon hearing which, they said to him, “When you return, tell Viriamu, (Mr. Williams,) if he will visit us, we will burn our idols, destroy our maraes, and receive the word of the true God.”