AN AFFECTING FAREWELL. 19]

the project. “ Words cannot express,” exclaims
Haensel, as he tells the tale, “the painful sensa-
tions that filled my mind when I was taking my
last farewell of the inhabitants, who flocked to me
from all the adjacent islands. Their grief was very
affecting, as they wept and howled, begging that
the Brethren might soon return to them; for we
had always enjoyed their esteem and love, and had
always found them ready to serve us. When I
remembered the numberless prayers, sighs, and
tears offered up for the conversion of the poor hea-
then here, and beheld our burial-ground, where
eleven of my companions had their resting-place,
I burst into tears and exclaimed, “Surely all thig
cannot have been done in vain !”