ABSTRACT
119[Here follows, by courtesy of the London Missionary Society, an extract from a manuscript journal recently discovered among the unprinted, and even unregistered, early papers of the Society. The extract here made from this journal records the experiences of thé writer, Brother John Davies, and of his fellow-Tahitian missionaries, who, having found it necessary to quit their station, were for a short time stranded on a Fijian islet off the coast of Vanua Levu, at the end of 1809, toward the end of the sandalwood boom— almost certainly the same islet on which William Lockerby had assembled his wood only a few months previously.
