Mortimer, mis Favell Favell Lee! THE NIGHT OF TOIL; OR A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT OF THE LABOURS OF SEA ISLANDS. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE "PEEP OF DAY." 66 'Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing; never- LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY; JOHN HARRIS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1838. K> 53327 HARVARD Jackson LONDON: PRINTED BY IBOTSON AND PALMER, SAVOY STREET. 1 PREFACE. THE moral change that has lately taken place in the South Sea Islands has attracted general attention. As it appeared desirable to present the history of this change in a form acceptable to youth, the particulars have been carefully collected from various sources-especially from the journals and letters of the missionaries, published in the seven volumes of "Missionary Transactions," and "The Quarterly Chronicle." Several more widely circulated works have also been consulted.* * "Ellis's Polynesia," and "Bennet and Tyerman's Voyage round the World." The former is elaborate, and calculated to satisfy the curiosity of the mature inquirer; the latter is more desultory, and suited to afford entertainment to the young. "Williams's Missionary Enterprises" treat chiefly of a period, and of places, only slightly adverted to in these pages, and would be read with much advantage after this history. |