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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 48.

FROM THE "PITCAIRN."

DR. M. G. KELLOGG writes as follows, under date of August 5:—

We are trying, at this writing, to beat into the harbor of Vavao, against a strong head wind, but may not be able to enter. Vavao is one of the Tonga Islands. We are all well. I wrote you last from Raratonga. We touched at Niue, or Savage Island, as it is sometimes called. It has 4,250 native and eight white inhabitants. The London Missionary Society is working this island. There are eleven villages, with a nice large stone schoolhouse in each and a large stone church in each of nine of the villages. There is a native teacher for each village, and one European missionary and wife are stationed here.

This is the most interesting island we have yet visited. We ought to locate a worker here, but he should have some medical knowledge and experience. I attended fifty-one patients the week we were on the island, and there were at least twenty-five more who needed surgical aid. But these had to be passed by for want of time to give the after care. I will write more fully of our work there hereafter, as I must now close this, as we have to give up entering the harbor. I expect that we will go direct from here to Fiji.