one, which occupies two-thirds of the vessel.

'Of course we make no invasion upon the quarters forward of the four
men before the mast--common seamen, and take good care that master
and mate shall have proper accommodation.

'One gets so used to this sort of thing that I sleep just as well as
I used to do in my own room at home, and by 6.30 or 7 A.M. all
vestiges of anything connected with sleeping arrangements have
vanished, and the cabins look like what they are,--large and roomy.
We have, you know, no separate cabins filled with bunks, &c.,
abominations specially contrived to conceal dirt and prevent
ventilation. Light calico curtains answer all purposes of dividing
off a cabin into compartments, but we agree to live together, and no
one has found it unpleasant as yet. We turn a part of our cabin into
a gunaikhon at night for the three women and two babies by means of a
canvas screen. Bishop looks after them, washes the babies, tends the
women when sick, &c., while I, by virtue of being a bachelor, shirk
all the trouble. One of these women is now coming for the second
time to the college; her name is Carry. Margaret Cho is on her
second visit, and Hrarore is the young bride of Kapua, now coming for
his third time, and baptized last year.

'We wish to make both husbands and wives capable of imparting better
notions to their people.

'We have, I think, a very nice set on board....

'I think everything points to Vanua Lava, the principal island of the
Banks group, becoming our centre of operations, i.e., that it would