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another as a study, the middle one being tlie dining and 

 sitting room. To each liut is attached a small garden 

 prettilj' laid out, where the students grow bananas, pine- 

 apples, sugar-cane, cabbage, onions, lettuce, sweet potatoes, 

 &c., also some ornamental plants, such as the native croton 

 with its brilliant yellow and green leaves. Some of the 

 students are married, of which I had evidence in the case of a 

 young woman whom I saw asleep with her baby under a tajia. 

 On leaving the Institution, we met on the road a tall 

 handsome young man who was galloping on a horse which 

 the Eev. IVIr. Whewell had ordered him to bring. The 

 heedless servant had, I suppose, disobeyed the orders of the 

 missionary, who having made him get off in quick time gave 

 him on the spot six or seven smart raps on his bare back and 

 shoulders with a small stick he had in his hand. The delin- 

 quent, who was big and strong enough to have doubled up his 

 master had he been inclined, received the chastisement with- 

 out the least wincing, and went about his business, while we 

 continued our walk. On exprtissing our surprise that this 

 young native should have suffered himself to be thrashed in 

 this way by a man so nuich his inferior in strength, Mr. 

 Whewell told us he was oiten obliged to treat the natives 

 in this way, because, having been accustomed to receive 

 them from their chiefs, they thought nothing of a few 

 blows ; and that occasionally it was necessary to stir them 

 up in this way to make them attentive and heedful. It is to be 

 observed, however, that a certain consequential bearing to- 

 wards the natives seems rather a peculiarity of the Wesleyan 



