Born in the island of Savaii, Bob was sent to the Mission School opened on that island, but not liking the restraint, he ran away and boarding a ship sailed for Samoa, where he grew up to manhood. After he was married he removed to the Fijis, where he became acquainted with the notorious pirate “Bully” Hayes, for whose capture a man-of-war vessel was sent from New Zealand and a reward offered. Had Hayes been caught, Bob would have undoubtedly shared his fate, being associated with him in various deeds of violence. Roaming among the islands, sorely given to drink and a terror to all who knew him, the unhappy man knew no peace and found no rest. He came to New Guinea, where Chalmers at that time was, and strange as it appeared to those who knew him, he listened with interest and eager attention to the preaching of the gospel of Christ, and made a personal acquaintance with the missionary, who gave him a Samoan Bible, which he read often when alone, and sought help from Chalmers in his soul’s distress. It was an affective sight to see the man who for years had been the terror of these shores, kneeling on the floor while prayer was ascending to the God of heaven against whom he had sinned, who nevertheless loved him, that his eyes might he opened to see and his heart to receive the salvation which Christ Jesus came to give to sinners such as he was. After deep conviction of sin and a thorough sense of his guilt, he trusted and confessed the Lord Jesus as his Saviour, and was known and recognized in all the country as a truly changed, because a “born again” man. He accompanied Chalmers on his journeys among the villages, and was respected by all who knew him as a consistent. Christian. It was while on a visit to Aroma that he was seized with illness, and after suffering great pain he passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord, whose precious blood had cleansed him from sin, on a Sunday evening. The following day, he was buried amid the tears and lamentation:; of many who knew him, two chiefs lowering the coffin into the grave, each dropping a tear on its lid as they laid him to rest. And as the news spread along the coast among the tribes who had first feared him as a man of blood, and next respected and loved him as a man of peace who sought their good, many sorrowed that they would see no more “Samoan Bob.” It is in such cases that the transforming power of the Gospel shines forth, for what else could subdue and convert such a sinner as he was, making him a manifest trophy of its saving power.