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the missionaries who visited the ship, about this matter, and to 

 test it he pronounced the word for yes, and involuntarily threw 

 up his head. The gestures accompanying the language are 

 necessary to its perfect use, and to speak without them would 

 be like speaking a European language with a false accent. 



In negation, the head is sometimes moved slowly from side 

 to side, but never shaken. In pointing out the way to a place, 

 the lips are pouted in order to indicate direction at the same 

 time that the hand is used to point with in the ordinary manner. 

 The use of the arms and head in gesture language, is very 

 remarkable, and conversations are carried on thus in an 

 extremely animated manner, with the help of very few actual 

 words. 



The coxswain of the pilot's boat, the ex-member of the 

 nobility, wore, as I have said, a pea-jacket; a photograph was 

 taken of the boat's crew. I could not persuade the coxswain 

 to take off the pea-jacket, in order to make the group uniform ; 

 he would only promise that if he were photographed with the 

 jacket on in the group, he would allow himself to be taken with 

 it off, separately, afterwards. The jacket was a thick garment 

 of the usual pilot cloth, fit only for an English winter, but the 

 man evidently regarded it as a mark of distinction and decora- 

 tion, and a proof that he was coxswain. 



I had much ditificulty in getting a lock of hair from one of 

 the boat's crew, and only succeeded by the help of a mis- 

 sionary, who explained that I did not want it for purposes of 

 witchcraft. The man also evidently was loth to part with a 

 single lock of what was his chief pride. Subsequently, in col- 

 lecting hair of various races for scientific purposes, I often had 

 amusing difficulties to contend with, and I suspect some of the 

 girls, from whom I got specimens, thought I was desperately 

 in love with them. 



The most prominent feature in the town of Nukualofa, as 

 the principal place in the island is called, is the small white 

 church which stands on the summit of a rounded hill about 

 40 feet in height. Conspicuous also is the King's house, a 

 respectable-looking small one-storied wooden building with a 

 verandah. There is, further, the Government building, a neat 

 wooden structure with a tower in the centre and a wing on 

 either side, each containing a single office-room. Here the 

 revenue of the Friendly Island Group, which amounts to about 

 ^7,000 or ^8,000, is dispensed, and the King's seal is 

 attached to documents. At a small printing office close by, an 

 almanac, a magazine. Bibles, and a few books, are printed in 

 the native language. 



The remainder^'of the town consists almost entirely of native 



