wife, and an orphan girl about fourteen or fifteen, I suppose, slept
on the other side of the screen; and two lads, called Grariri and
Parenga, slept on my side of it. I can't say I slept at all, for the
rats were so very many, coming in through the bamboo on every side,
and making such a noise I could not sleep, though tired. They were
running all about me.

'Well, at daylight I sent Gariri to fetch some water, and shaved and
washed, to the great admiration of Iri and the ladies, and of others
also, who crowded together at the hole which serves for door and
windows. I lay down in my clothes, all but my coat, but I took a
razor and some soap ashore.

'Sunday was spent in going about to different neighbouring
settlements, and climbing the coral rocks was hard work, the
thermometer at sea being 85° in the cool cabin, as the Bishop told me
to-day.

'Of course many people were at work in the yam grounds, several of
which I saw; but I found considerable parties at the different
villages, and had, on the whole, satisfactory conversations with
them. They listened and asked questions, and I told them as well as
I could the simplest truths of Christianity.

'I had a part of a yam and drank four cocoa-nuts during the day,
besides eating some mixture of yam, taro, and cocoa-nut all pounded
together.

'People offered me food and nuts everywhere. Walked back with a boy
called Tahi for my guide, and stopped at several plantations, and