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curved ends and a high-pitched roof. It differs from them 

 in having two rows or orders of columns, every three of 

 the lower supporting a short beam, from which springs 

 the second order, bearing the ridge-pole. This, as well as 

 all the horizontal beams, is most beautifully ornamented 

 with cocoa-nut plait, so arranged as to give the appearance 

 of Grecian or Italian mouldings, of infinite variety and 

 delicate gradations of colour, black, with the different shades 

 of red and yellow, being those employed. Different com- 

 binations of interlacing diamonds or rectangular figures 

 formed the groundwork of these designs ; but the same one 

 was seldom twice repeated, and, the size of the pattern 

 being nicely proportioned to the distance from the spectator's 

 eyes, the effect was very artistic and pleasing.' The natives 

 were busy, when I saw them, making ' for the love of God ' 

 a handsome road round it. There is, moreover, in the 

 village a house for the use of the council, a sort of town 

 hall. 



Next day I went with some of the officers to the 

 governor's, hoping to find horses on which we could make 

 an excursion into the interior. This personage, David 

 Unga, is, as I have said, son of King George, sovereign of 

 the Friendly Islands, which comprise the Haafuluhao 

 Islands (improperly called the Vavau group), the Hapai 

 Islands and the Tonga group including Tongatabu. David 

 is heir apparent to King George, being his son by one of 

 the wives His Majesty discarded, on becoming Christian, 

 at the instance of the Missionaries ; the only one he had by 



