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and when I inform you that I am alone in
this station at present, and have the School
to attend -three times in the week to perform divine service and preach
in Taheitan, & once in english, with all
the other duties of the station to perform myself,
you will readily believe I have little time to write
and excuse me if I am brief in this. Mr Platt
who is stationed with me here, resides for the
present where the Sugar Wrks are a putting
up, and, with Mr. Darling from Taheiti & Mr G Bicknell is
assisting in ereting them. You are doubtless
acquaint with the cercumstance of a Mr Gyle?
& family being sent out by our Directors with
a Sugar Apparatus. It is about two or three
miles from this station in the District of
Cape toai (which is the only station upon the
Island) at the hed of a very find Harbour
where there is good Land, & plenty of
water to drive the Mill etc. You will
have heard long before this reaches you of the
Society formed here among the natives called the Taheitan
Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel,
of which the King is both Patron & President.
I am happy to say that it prospers, and
that the Members are collecting their subscrip
tions of cocoa nut oil etc. with Spirit, to be ready agsinst
the general meeting in May. They will be a great
quantity of that article which, if there can be a
market got for it, may contribute considerably
towards defraying the expenses of the Mission.
The general meeting in May is to be held
in a very great building the King is erecting
for a place of worship in the District of
Pare in Taheite, which is nearly finished
and will be one of the wonders of these Islands.
I imagine that that Huge Church, which is then
consecrated to the worship of God, would contain
double the number of people of that of St Pauls in London.

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