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

 sitting room. To each hut is attached a small garden 

 prettily 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 l)aby under a tapa. 

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

 handsome young man Avho was galloping on a horse which 

 the Eev. Mr. 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 cjuick 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, Avho was big and strong enough to have doubled up his 

 master had he been inclined, received the chastisement Avith- 

 out the least Avincing, and Avent about his business, Avhile Ave 

 continued our Avalk. On expressing our surprise that this 

 young native should have suffered himself to be thrashed in 

 this Avay by a man so much his inferior in strength, Mr. 

 Whewell told us he Avas often obliged to treat the natives 

 in this Avay, because, having been accustomed to receive 

 them from their chiefs, they thought nothing of a fcAv 

 blows ; and that occasionally it was necessary to stir them 

 up in this Avay 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 



