manners wrapped around their waists downward and reaching their knees. The spectacle of the natives and a hand- ful of white people waiting on the way was a colorful one A large number of the natives were delegated to the differ- t jobs of making the ship fast while all the whites stood around in the shade and didn't move a muscle. The natives, in spite of their remarkable statures, had diffi- culty in executing the moves and hauling, which a third the number of white men generally do with far greater ease and alacrity. Hannibal and I hired a car with a native driver and requested him to take us on the standard round-the-island tour. This he proceeded to do with a broad grin and other manifestations of pleasure, which we could not understand then but which we began to understand later. Off we went up a hill, and after a five minute drive in which we observed the new hospital, the police station, and the view of the harbor, we came to a native village where the driver stopped and let us out of the car. A large native as bare and black as the other side of the moon offered us his services as escort which we accepted with great speed and other demonstrations of friendship and peace. He showed us through several native huts including that of the chief of the village. We entered his domicile on tiptoe with our hats off and found him squatting before a stone bowl in which he was pounding something which was later to turn into his lunch. We also saw the cooking hut and the meeting hut. There were a great number of women about, old and young, carrying babies or being