was one of such extreme gentleness, and of yearning towards them.  I never saw that look on his face again, I suppose because no similar scene ever occurred again when I happened to be with him.  It was enough in itself to evoke sympathy; and as we pulled away, though the channel was narrow and winding, yet, as the water was deep, we discussed the possibility of the schooner being brought in there at some future time.  I am quite aware of my inability to do justice to that side of the Bishop’s character, of which, owing to the position in which I stood to him as master of the Mission vessel, I have been asked to say a few words.  There are others who know far better than myself what his peculiar qualifications were.  His conduct to me throughout the time was marked by an unvarying confidence of manner and kindliness in our everyday intercourse, until, gradually, I came to think I understood the way in which he wished things done, and acted in his absence with an assurance of doing his wishes, so far as I could, which I never had attained to before with anyone else, and never shall again.  And, speaking still of my own experience, I can safely say the love we grew to feel for him would draw such services from us (if such were needed) as no fear of anyone’s reproof or displeasure ever could do.  And perhaps this was the greatest privilege, or lesson, derived from our intercourse with him, that “Love casteth out fear!”

’Tiros.  Capel Tilly.

‘Auckland:  October 28, 1872.’

This letter to Mr. Derwent Coleridge follows up the subject of the requisites for missionary work:—­

’"Southern Cross,” Kohimarama:  August 8, 1863.

’My dear Cousin,—­Thank you for a very kind letter which I found here on my return from a short three months’ voyage in Melanesia.  You will, I am sure, give me any help that you can, and a young man trained under your eye would be surely of great use in this work.  I must confess that I distrust greatly the method adopted still in some places of sending out men as catechists and missionaries, simply because they appear to be zealous and anxious to engage in missionary work.  A very few men, well educated, who will really try to understand what heathenism is, and will seek, by God’s blessing, to work honestly without prejudice and without an indiscriminating admiration for all their own national tastes and modes of thought—­a few such men, agreeing well together and co-operating heartily, will probably be enabled to lay foundations for an enduring work.  I do not at all wish to apply hastily for men—­for any kind of men—­to fill up posts that I shall indeed be thankful to occupy with the right sort of men.  I much prefer waiting till it may please God to put it into the head of some two or three more men to join the Mission—­years hence it may be.  We need only a few; I don’t suppose that ten years hence I should (if alive) ever wish to have more than six or eight clergy; because