They have furnished willing martyrs, and many have been far beyond praise.

One lack, however, seems to be of that definite formularies, a deficiency which leaves the teaching to depend over much on the individual impressions of the teacher.
The chief remnants of cannibalism are to be found in the New Hebrides.
The leader of the attack on John Williams is still alive at Erromango, and the savage defiant nature of this people has never been subdued.

They belong more to the Melanesian than the Polynesian races.

The first are more like the Negro, the second more like the Malay.

The Melanesian Missions are in the charge of the Missionary Bishop, John Coleridge Patteson, who went out as a priest with the Bishop of New Zealand in 1855.
The New Zealand story, as I have said, cannot be told in the lifetime of the chief actor in it.