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body knew how to read, write, and cypher,' and that there 

 was in each village a schoolmaster, fed, clothed, and paid by 

 the natives. Slie showed us several books printed in the 

 native language ; among otliers a Bible, a work on geo- 

 graphy, and a dictionary. With respect to this language I 

 may say, it seemed to me that the Samoans use an ' F ' 

 wherever the Hawaiians use an ' H ' or ' W ; ' for instance, 

 they say fajine (woman) for wahine,fai (water) for wai, &c. 

 About five o'clock, after his Sunday duties, the missionary 

 returned. He called our attention to the very fine view 

 from his house, and showed us over the various parts of his 

 residence, the roof of which he had constructed himself, 

 well executed, but, of course, not so skilfully done as that 

 which the Alofi natives had made for Mr. Lawes. The 

 form of government in the island, he told us, was patri- 

 archal ; also that there is a chief in every village, that all 

 the chiefs are equal one with another, and that they confine 

 themselves entirely to the affairs of their own districts. 

 He spoke highly of the inhabitants, who almost all of them 

 buy Bibles bound in calf at nine shillings each, and who 

 contribute a very considerable sum (1,200^. in 1864) to the 

 support of foreign missions. While we were conversing, 

 tea and bread and butter were brought in. Among 

 other things, we were told that an American blacksmith, 

 who had been settled thirteen years in the island, made 

 harpoons and fish-hooks for the whole archipelago, which 

 he disposed of in exchange for cocoanut oil. Tutuila pro- 

 ' This, as we shall find (at p. .59), is an over-estimate. 



