Adventures in New Guinea

e mission work has been carried on-A Sunday at East Cape

the finest art, and who from their earliest years study it. Disease, sickness, and death have all to be accounted for. They know nothing of malaria, filth, or contagion. Hence they hold that an enemy causes these things, and friends have to see that due punishment is made. The large night firefly helps to point in the direction of that enemy, or the spirits of departed ones are called in through spiritists' influence to come and assist, and the medium pr

ich New Guinea natives have shown much skill and ingenuity is in the manufacture of weapons. One of these is known as a Man-catcher, and was invented by the natives of Hood

rom the brawny arm of the vengeful captor jerks the victim upon the spike, which (if the weapon be deftly handled) pe

are only anxious now to do what they can to assist them, even to the washing of their feet. How the change came about is simply by the use of the same means as those acted upon in many islands of the Pacific. The first missionaries landed not only to preach the Gospel of Divine love, but also to live it, and to show to the savage a more excellent

was a chief from the opposite side of the bay, who in early days gave us much trouble, and had to be well watched. Now he was dressed, and his appearance much altered. It was now possible to meet him and feel he was a friend. We found Pi Vaine very ill, and not likely to live long; yet she lived long enough to rejoice in the glorious success of the Gospel of Christ, and to see many of those for whom she laboured profess Christianity. We were astonished, when we met in the afternoon, at the orderly service-the nice well-tuned singing of hymns, translated by the teacher, and the attention, when he read a chapter in Mark's Gospel-translated by him from the Rarotongan into the dialec

candidate we decided to baptize them on the following Tuesday. The service was most interesting, and well attended by persons from various places. At night we examined the children and grown-up people who attend school, and were much pleased with them. A few can read in the Motu dialect; others know how to put letters together a

"The New Guinea Institution for Training Evangelists." At present we shall proceed quickly, building native houses for st

rkness is breaking, and the thick clouds are moving, and the hidden ones are being gathered in. We have already plucked the first flowers; s

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