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to hear now as at the beginning of this exercise. The adults
are so exceedingly proud that they cant bear to
be taught; & together with this, they are so strongly
rivited to their own idolatrous religion & superstitious
rites. We have not yet been favoured with any
apparrent real success in our endeavour for their
conversion, but this we are certain
of, that knowledge is much increased amongst
those to whom our labours have been confined, who
are the inhabitants of this district chiefly. some
of the children promise well under Br. Eyres instruc-
tions. Mrs. Henry has been most part of the time
ill, since the departure of brother Shelley & the
Porpoise; but is now through the goodness
& mercy of God well recovered. Indeed such was
her illness that she, & most of us dispared of her
ever recovering here, inasmuch that she had nearly
made up her mind to embrace the first opportunity
of returning to England or P. Jackson; but being
now well restored to health, she is perfectly
contented in her present situation & circumstan-
ces & would not leave the island for any consideration.
For information respecting the political State of
the island & other particulars which time will
not allow me to insert in this, I must refer you to

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the Revd. Mr Marsden for whom I have just
writen a letter in which I have given some brief
account of this & other things. Mr. Youl I believe
is to write you also & probably his will make up
for the deficiency of news in mine. It is probable
Mr. Shelley shall have sailed again for Otaheite 
before this arrives, if not give our affectionate
respects to him & his partner, & tell them we long
much to see them here. I had a notion of writing
to Norfolk to the Revd. Mr. Fulton by the present
conveyance but time fails me & moreover I know
not whether he is there at present. If he is at
P. Jackson, be kind enough to make our affectionate 
regards acceptable to him & Mrs. Fulton, (by our I
mean Mrs. H & myself) & request him to be kind
enough to write me the first opportunity & let
me know what news he has recd. from Ireland parti-
cularly from the Revd. Mr. Walker which will
afford us much gratification we not receiving a
single line from them since our coming to Otaheite.
I flatter myself he will be kind enough to comply
with this request though unknown to him by face.
Mrs. H is well acquainted with a brother
of his, & has had some slight acquaintance with himself.
If he is still at Norfolk pleas to acquaint me when you
write what you may know respecting him, his family
& ministry at Hs - My paper you see is out. Mrs. H unites 
in tender love & affectionate regards to you Mrs. Hassall &c with
yours most affectly, & sincerely 

W Henry