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meant it well, to save expense. My experience teaches me to throw all I
can in the way of natives not connected with our head station. At this
station--Port Moresby--for the next few years the expenses will be
considerable in buildings, laying out the land, and in presents to the
constant stream of visitors; but it will have a Christianizing and a
civilizing effect upon a large extent of country.
On the 24th of May, 1881, left Port Moresby in the _Mayri_, and, having
taken on board four natives at Boera, continued a westerly course,
anchoring next day in Hall Sound, opposite Delena. Early on the morning
of May 26th, Kone and Lavao, our old friends, came off. They say it is
useless going to Maiva, as we cannot land; but we can go and see for
ourselves, and they will accompany us. I had to land to eat pigs,
_i.e_., receive pigs and hand them over to my followers. On landing,
they led me up the hill at the back of village, where I was astonished to
find a fine tract of land forming a splendid position for a house.
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