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Monday 3 July 1818
My Dear Sir
[indecipherable] and myself arrived
here on the 28th May, they are in good health and desire to be
affectionately remembered to you. We are doing a little in
the [indecipherable] line but get on very slowly: We are also receiving
instruction from a good, Christ loving young man, in the
use of Carpenters tools: and a part of our time is employed
in visiting the good people in this neighbourhood, who are
all much pleased with our new Zealand friends. The
[indecipherable] of their manners is certainly superior to what
might be expected from them; they win the hearts of the
people where they go, and I hope many of the royal
family of Jesus, are carrying them in the arms of their
faith to a throne of grace day by day. All is right, &
they go on happily till they are brought to [indecipherable]
they can then, at times, scowl and be very fretful &
obstinate, and act in a way which would be trying
to a better temper then mine - but upon the whole
I am much attached to them. Pray for me, for
I find I have undertaken a difficult task and one that
I cannot accomplish without help, continually from