FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 347 
the weather grew warmer and really seemed to enjoy their fre- 
quent baths. 
Deck sports were on nearly all day. A good many passengers 
indulged in them even on Sunday. Services were conducted in 
the lounge, a missionary being in charge. The singing was very 
good as these Colonials are apt to know more about vocal music 
than we Americans do. There was a good deal of drinking in 
the smoking room; I noticed two of the motion picture young 
women drinking a good many cocktails during the course of the 
day and particularly in the evening. The camera man of the 
company played the flute very effectively at the Sunday evening 
service, and was quite an artist with the pencil. He said they 
exposed ninety thousand feet of film in making their Tahiti 
picture but only seven thousand feet appeared in the completed 
production, which I afterwards saw at Iowa City; it was regard- 
ed as a very beautiful picture so far as the scenic effect was 
concerned. Another man, the star of the company, we all ad- 
mired greatly. 
We had not passed a single ship at sea since leaving Welling- 
ton but were daily exchanging wireless messages with several 
of them. 
A ministerial looking, tall, well built man with a high, gray 
pompadour and intellectual face and head turned out to be a 
Pinkerton detective bringing home a man charged with abscond- 
ing with the funds of a bank in Honolulu. The prisoner was a 
young fellow, quiet and continually reading in the smoking room. 
For a while I suspected that he was a theological student or re- 
turning missionary. He made the fatal mistake of supposing 
that he could lose himself in an out of the way place and fled to 
the interior of Tahiti. A moment’s consideration would have 
shown him that a stranger is marked by every one in such places 
and all the natives knew just where he could be found. So the 
detectives had no trouble whatever in locating their man. He 
sat between two of them at the table not far from us and if he 
got up was at once followed by one or the other of them. 
On August 29 we were in the doldrums or belt of calms, but 
struck the northeast trades late in the afternoon. I was much 
interested in what the camera man of the motion picture outfit 
told me of the complexity of combining several different scenes 
to make one picture. For instance, the director wanted a certain 
type of house with certain shrubbery plants in the fore ground 
