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elicited much clapping of hands, in proof that the gift was 
accepted: money would not have pleased half as much, 
as its use is not understood. All payments are made in 
kind,—a most irksome and cumbrous way, compelling you 
to carry a whole heap of things to defray the current ex- 
penses of a cruise ; articles regarded as small change, and 
making one look like a pedlar, you are supposed to have 
always about you. In one pocket you carry pipes and to- 
bacco—in great demand, but held rather cheap; in an- 
other, fish-hooks, jews’-harps, and beads, the spare room 
to be filled with scissors and knives of various descrip- 
tions. On board are kept your gold and bank-notes, re- 
presented by bales of Manchester print, especially navy 
blue ; flannel jackets and woollen blankets,—killing the 
natives faster than brandy and the so-called vices of 
civilization,—and American hatchets, price five dollars 
apiece. ‘The inconvenience and expense of paying for 
everything by articles of barter is increased by some of 
the goods not proving acceptable in all towns, and the 
natives refusing certain things because they happen to 
differ in some unimportant trifle from those generally 
in use. Fashion here, as elsewhere, rules supreme: 
knives with white handles instead of black would be 
objected to, though their blades might be first-rate ; and 
I learned to my cost that it is absolutely useless to 
lay in stock at Sydney or Melbourne unless one obtains 
exact information regarding the articles in demand. 
On leaving Taulalia, September the 7th, we steered 
eastward, passing Yawe, the famous pottery manufac- 
tory, in order to bid farewell to Mr. Royce, the prin- 
cipal missionary at Tavuki, under whose hospitable roof 
