long enough to take seven of us at the high table (so to speak), and
thirty-four at the long table, stretching from the high table to the
end of the room.

'At present this is used for school also, as the carpenters who are
making all our fittings, shelves, &c., are still in the large
schoolroom. We take off the north end of the schoolroom, including
one set of transepts for our temporary chapel. This part will be
lined, i.e. boarded, neatly inside. The rest of the building is
very rough, but it answers its purpose.

'In all the stone buildings, the rough stone is left inside just as
it is outside. It does not look bad at all to my eye, and I doubt if
I would have it lined if we had funds to pay for it.

'I hope eventually that stone buildings will take the place of the
present wooden schoolroom and dormitories; but this ought to last
many years. Here we live most happily and comfortably. The climate
almost tropical in summer. The beautiful scenery of the harbour
before our eyes, the smooth sea and clean dry beach within a stone's
throw of my window. The lads and young men have their fishing,
bathing, boating, and basking in the sun, which all day from sunrise
to sunset beats right upon us; for the west cliff does not project
more than a few yards to the north of us, and the eastern boundary is
low and some way off. I see the little schooner at her moorings
whenever I look off my book or my paper, and with an opera-glass can
see the captain caulking the decks. All is under my eye; and the
lads daily say, "College too cold; Kohimarama very good; all the same
Bauro, Mota," as the speaker belongs to one or other of our fourteen
islands represented.... The moment we heard of your gift, we said