truly termed mean the beach and of the pacific they infamous lives and added their own to the vices of the islands turning the district into a perfect sink of in which they were known by letter xv the early � such as the devil c the coming of the and the settlement of moral orderly on have slowly created a public opinion averse to and the outrageous license of former years would now meet with legal many of the old are dead and others have drifted to regions beyond influences but stiu the crowd is not considered up to the mark most of the present set of foreigners are englishmen who liave married native women it was in such quarters as this that the great influence to the complete of the natives was created and it is from suspicious sources that the on missionary work are usually derived has its own beauty � the grand plain the gigantic sweep of the mountain curves the incessant changes of colour and the morning view of with the pure snow on its ragged dome rose flushed in the early sunlight i don t agree with that happiness is atmosphere yet constant sunshine and a climate which never one with discomfort or ills certainly to cheerfulness i am quite interested with a native lady here the first i have met with who has been able to express her ideas in english she is extremely shrewd and intelligent very and a great she very cleverly the way in which white people express their admiration of scenery and in fact admiration of scenery for itself she evidently thinks us a worrying forlorn race we she said are q xv always happy we never grieve long about anything when any one dies we break our hearts for some days and then we are happy again we are happy all day long not like white people happy one moment gloomy another we ve no cares the days are too short what are always unhappy about perhaps she expresses the general feeling of her careless pleasure loving mirth loving people who whatever they dis obey fulfil the one take no thought for the morrow the of the beautiful i before wrote of is a favourite occupation of native women and they make all their own and their husbands clothes but making going into the woods to collect materials for them talking riding bathing visiting and otherwise amusing themselves take up the greater part of their time perhaps if we white women always wore of one shape we should have fewer gloomy moments i l b f xvi valley i am sitting at the door of a grass lodge at the end of all things for no one can pass ther by land than this huge lonely about thirty natives are sitting about me all staring laughing and chattering and i am the only person in the region we have all had a meal sitting round a large of and a fowl which was killed in my honour and in one of their stone i have forgotten my knife and have had to help after the primitive fashion of not without some fear for some of them i am sure are in an advanced stage of the brown limbs of one man are stretched across the mat the others are sitting cross legged making one man is making fishing lines of a beautifully white and fibre obtained from an plant possibly different from the new nearly all the people of the valley are outside having come to see the only one white woman and she of having been seen in before i am really alone miles of mountain and lie between me and the nearest this is a wonderful place a about three miles long and i three quarters of a mile wide without an means of being walled in by from to feet high five from the at its head and unite to form a placid river up to a horse s body here and deep enough for a horse to swim in a httle below dense forests of various shades of green fill up the greater part of the valley concealing the into which the leap and the grey of the is mostly hidden by at the open end two bald one of them feet in height the pacific and its load surf comes up to within one hundred yards of the house where i am writing but is off by a heaped up barrier of colossal hot and silent a sunset world of an endless afternoon it seems a palpable and living dream and a few of these people i understand have dreamed away their lives here never having been beyond their valley at least by land but it is a dream of ceaseless speech and rippling laughter they are the people i have yet seen and doubtless their isolated life is dear to them i wish i could sketch this most picturesque scene in the which is formed of two handsome youths and five women in green red and orange all with of round their hair are on the ground outside of this there is a pavement of large stones and in all colours and including some much old people crouching in red and yellow blankets sitting and lying there some are small dogs and a number of native curiosity lai e ones with a whole tribe of cats are picking bones surf boards i ad spurs gear and bundles of ti leaves are lying about thirteen horses are outside some of which brought the who escorted me triumphantly from the head of the valley the of the opposite are in the sunset and between them and me horses and children are constantly swimming across the broad still stream which the village into two parts and now and then a man in a and children who have come up the river swimming with their clothes 