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I answered, "Gladly, my children, take your fill!" In a twinkling each child was perched upon a branch; and they feasted there happy as squirrels. Every night we prayed for the vessel, and in the morning our Orphan boys rushed to the coral rocks and eagerly scanned the sea for an answer. Day after day they returned with sad faces, saying, "Missi, Tavaka jimra!"
But at gray dawn of a certain day we were awoke by the boys shouting from the shore and running for the Mission House with the cry, "Tavaka oa! We arose at once, and the boy exclaimed, "Missi, she is not our own vessel, but we think she carries her flag. She has three masts, and our Dayspring only two!"
After this, the Natives spend their time in fishing or lounging or preparing supper, which is amongst them always the meal of the day. Towards sundown the Tavaka sounds again, and the day closes amid the echoes of village prayers from under their several banyan trees.
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