one light skinned individual, a Chinaman. This Chinaman is aided and abetted in elevating the estate of the negro population by a Fiji mission teacher. The first presented us with a pig before we left, and the second occupied himself as the interpreter and trade commissioner, arguing and translating to the natives the amount of calico and tobacco that was being offered to them for the possums, pineapples, yams, oranges, taro, poi, bananas, and snakes that they brought aboard. The natives of this island are all commanded by one chief and it was for him that they gave a dance the second day of our visit. It appears that his canoe had upset and he had lost all his belong- ings (a pipe) overboard. In order to console him his subjects took it upon themselves to distract his mind by a dance. For this purpose all the men and women of the village were busy collecting fruit, nuts, vegetables, and other indigenous delicacies from the bush. By four o'clock in the afternoon twenty or thirty large packages of leaf wrapped banquet material were placed in neat rows on top of a large wooden altar. This structure which was about ten feet high had a ladder mounting up to it, and against it there was a bamboo pole erected, supporting in its turn an iron taro pot. As I came into the village from a day's hunting in the bush I could see the maris gathered in the centre of the village. They had their hair painted