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Mortimer, mis Favell

Favell Lee!

THE

NIGHT OF TOIL;

OR

A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT OF THE LABOURS OF
THE FIRST MISSIONARIES IN THE SOUTH

SEA ISLANDS.

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE "PEEP OF DAY."

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'Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing; never-
theless at thy word I will let down the net." LUKE V. 5.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY;

JOHN HARRIS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1838.

K> 53327

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
APR 20 1955

Jackson

LONDON:

PRINTED BY IBOTSON AND PALMER,

SAVOY STREET.

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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.

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