It had
evidently been hidden there till a favourable opportunity should occur of
taking it away. During the search, the owner of the axe (one of the
teachers) ran off for his gun, and came rushing over with it. I ordered
him to take it back, and in the evening told them it was only in New
Guinea that guns were used by missionaries. It was not so in any other
mission I knew of, and if we could not live amongst the natives without
arms, we had better remain at home; and if I saw arms used again by them
for anything, except birds, or the like, I should have the whole of them
thrown into the sea.
In the afternoon of the 14th, I went over to the house in which we had
been staying, to stir up the teachers to get the things over more
quickly; Mrs. Chalmers remaining at the new house to look after the
things there, as, without doors or flooring, everything was exposed. I
went to the seaside to call to the captain of the _Mayri_ to send us the
boat ashore, when, on looking towards my left, I saw twenty armed natives
hurrying along.
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