St Vincent. 2 Jan, 1891 Jumby Cottage, Mr Louis Patu, the rich proprietor of the neighbouring estate, Mt Bentinck. The dinner table was beautifully decorated, for Mr Hayll had put on his servants, and the dinner was a luxurious one served in grand style. Champagne flowed like water. Mr Patu saw me the rest of them, placing Don Moore on his left, and he and all his guests were exceedingly pleasant in fact we all enjoyed ourselves immensely. After dinner he sent into the gallery and smoked and chatted and then went to our beds which bedrooms, but as to sleep for a long time on the place was insufferably hot. 3 Jan 1891 Wednesday. Got some good Cook stove implements today. Small treated me, so I played him a practical joke. Got hold of his servant, and told the boy to go all about and try to buy some implements for me. He trumped up reasons, and then I told him publicly what I had done to the amusement of us all, including Small himself. There is a grand bath attached to the house, in which we can get a good swim. We all enjoyed the bath immensely. After every early lunch for Jack Hayll, Don Moore and I start for Ovia at the extreme north end of the island; a ride there and back about 32 St Vincent. 3 Jan, 1891 miles. Small you with us after the day's work, which is the fit of the lava stream that we poured out of the volcano in 1812. We rode from Mt to Longton, and having the high street we turned down a side lane and came to the beach by the jetty, which has been rocked by Small Company. The jetty is very substantially built, and it runs right through the surf which he rocks on the sandy shore with much force in huge rollers. These are rough, but still a 'glass boat' very strong and high one sharp at both ends, we being launched over to ply between the head of the jetty and a schooner lying off a few cables cable lengths, and made fast to the buoy three moored. Men were men from the glass boat to the jetty and then held by half dozen men, several men were ready to run the boat down when an opportunity occurred after a big roller had broken and it was seen that smaller waves were coming in. The time came after about eight minutes waiting, and then with shouts all his clumsy looking boat was shoved off, several men jumped in view of both ends with water and sprang to the one, and at the same time