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hard to get enough, and at 12:45 accompanied Dr. Cheeseman to 

 a lunch at the Northern Club given by Mr. C. C. McMillan. 

 Among the guests were the U. S. Consul-General Mr. Wm. A. 

 Prickett, and three others, one a trustee of the museum. It was a 

 very pleasint occasion and I sit on our host's right hand. We went 

 on board early but the boat did not get away until 6:30. 



172. Fijian pottery. 



Monday, Nov. 25. Warmer, and we arrived at Suva at 11 p.m. 

 Early in the morning a carriage was secured and we started 

 promptly for our drive. First up the hills back of the town to the 

 pleasant residence of one of our fellow-passengers, Hon. Jas. Borron, 

 who had asked us to look at his native curiosities ; then about the 

 town on fine, hard roads, stopping at the museum newly established 

 by the Fijian Society and the Government. In this we found many 

 interesting things, and the secretary of the society, Mr. C. Wall, 

 kindly showed us what we were most interested in. On the stair- 

 way was an immense roll of sennit, and some others about a yard 

 high ; these were in former days used in house building and deco- 



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