’April 22.—­The storm seems to have passed, though one or two are still very weak.  But there are no active symptoms of disease.  How mercifully God has dealt with us!  I have been very seedy for a few days, and am so still.  In spite of two teeth taken out a fortnight ago, my whole jaw has been paining me much, heavy cold, and I can’t get good sleep by reason of the pain, and I want sleep much.  I think I must go to the dentist again.  You see we hope to sail in ten days or so, and I want to be well.

’We have just washed and scrubbed the hall thoroughly, and once again it ceases to be our hospital.  That looks bright, does not it?  You must let all friends know about us, for I shall not be able to write to many, and perhaps I shall not have time to write at all.  In the midst of all this, I have so much work about the management of the Mission farm and property, and the St. John’s College estate, and educational prospects.’

The ‘Southern Cross’ was at sea again on May 2, and approved herself entirely to her owners’ satisfaction.

Moreover, another clergyman had come on board for a trial trip, the Rev. Robert Codrington, a Fellow of Wadham, Oxford, who brought the University culture which was no small personal pleasure to Bishop Patteson in the companion of his labours.  So that the staff consisted of Mr. Pritt, Mr. Kerr, Mr. Codrington, Mr. Palmer and Mr. Atkin, besides Mr. Tilly, whose management of the vessel left the Bishop free from cares whenever his knowledge of the coast was not needed.  Some of the results of his leisure on the outward voyage here appear:—­

’I am glad I have read the accounts which Bishop Mackenzie’s sister sent me.  I know more about it now.  Work and anxiety and necessity for action all came upon them so rapidly, that there was but little time for forming deliberate plans.  I can well realise the finding oneself surrounded with a hundred poor creatures, diseased and hungered, the multitude of questions how to feed, lodge, and clothe them.  How far it is right to sanction their mode of life, &c.  One thing I am glad to notice, that the Bishop abstained from all attempts to convey religious instruction, because he was not sufficiently acquainted with the language to know what ideas he might or might not be suggesting.  That was wise, and yet how unlike many hot-headed men, who rush with unintentional irreverence into very dangerous experiments.

’I confess, as you know, that there seems to me far too cumbrous and expensive and talkative a method employed in England, for raising supplies for that Mission and Columbia, Honolulu, &c.  I never think of all that fuss of the four Universities, and all the meetings and speeches, without some shame.  But united action will come in the train of real synodical action; and if I understand aright, the last Convocation of Canterbury accepted all that we are trying for, taking the right view in the question of Provinces, Metropolitans, position of Colonial Churches, joint action of the Church at large, &c.  Extension of Episcopate in England.  Oh, thanks be to God for it all.  What a work for this branch of the Catholic Church!  How can people sit quiet, not give their all!