Na Pai was a native of Samoa, Polynesia; he
came to England with Mr. Pritchard, Britisb consul
at Feejee. Na Pai is orie of the many specimens we
might adduce of native Christians who come to Eng-
land. He was learned in the Polynesian languages ;
being able to read and talk in several dialects. He
brought his Samoan Bible with him, and had a strong
desire to have a Bible in the Tahitian ; which I was
unable to procure for him, even from the British
and Foreign Bible Society. I supplied him, however,
with a New Testament. Though able to understand
little, he always liked to attend me to the house of
God, and manifested great pleasure in spiritual things,
lie told me that there were chapels constructed in
Samoa and Feejee of bamboos, capable of containing
from 500 to 1000 persons ; to one place of worship
he referred, whose walls were constructed of the conso-
lidated lava that flowed from the volcanoes so common
among these islands. In Feejee, Na Pai is the boat-
swain of the consul-boat, and I was truly pleased with
the testimony the consul bore to his integrity. Mr.
Pritchard told me that if he were to place ;^SOO in the
care of Na Pai, it would be as safe as it would in the
Bank of England; — a valuable testimony indeed, to
one whose island twenty years ago was the scene of
idolatry^ and who is now residing among a group
known at no late period for the worst of cannibalism ;
and most notorious among the South Sea Islands for
their treachery and falsehood.
