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 When we arrived at the end of our journey, Teito (which was the slave’s name) took me into his hut, and put me carefully into his little press.

The next day he brought me out, when I whispered to him, ‘Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.’ ‘Sure I have found it so,’ said Teito, ‘from my youth up.” But, I added, ‘The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble; and they that know his name will put their trust in him.’ ‘I wish I knew this Lord,’ replied Teito, ‘I would run for refuge to him.’ I endeavoured to convineeconvince [sic] him that sin is the eausecause [sic] of all human misery. ‘But,’ said he, ‘what is sin?’ I answered, ‘It is the transgression of the law of God;’ and that he might understand this, I explained to him the nature of that law, and mentioned many who, in aneientancient [sic] times, transgressed that law, and stated the punishments inflietedinflicted [sic] on them. In order also to make him acquainted with the progress of sin and misery in the heathen world, among whom he was born, I repeated what Paul wrote in the first ehapterchapter [sic] of his letter to the Romans. I told him that God had not left men to perish without a remedy; that he had not left them without a refugorefuge [sic]; but had so loved thothe [sic] world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting lifolife [sic]. When he had time I related to him the life and death, &c., of Jesus Christ. God inelinedinclined [sic] him to listen to my instructions, and taught him to understand them. My information was all new to him, having never heard suehsuch [sic] things before. Wherever he went he repeated what I had told him, and often solieitedsolicited [sic] his comrades to come to his hut and hear me themselves. Some, however, said I talked nonsense; others that I made them uneasy, whiehwhich [sic] they did not like; and a third, that I was a rank enthusiast, and had, in some other islands, created great eonfusionconfusion [sic]. ‘Oh!’ said Teito, ‘you do not understand him, or you would not entertain suehsuch [sic] notions of him; for he has been travelling for some thousand years in the world, teaching without any reward, how men may beeomebecome [sic] happy herohere [sic], and in a world that is to eomecome [sic].’ ‘Well,’ said they, ‘has he done any good? ‘Yes, infinite good; he has eomfortedcomforted [sic] thousands in every age, in all their afflietionsafflictions [sic]; delivered them from painful despondency; and made them not only to love eaeheach [sic] other, but their enemies also; and through his instructions has made them to rejoice even in the solemn hour of dissolution, which, in general, is a terror to thothe [sic] stoutest heart.’ ‘It may be so,’ said one, shrugging up his shoulders and walking off. Some said, these things might do very well for old and infirm people, who are stepping down into