Mission Station at Kwamera. 159 
I had been summoned to the island for the express purpose of 
playing the butcher, asked, with rather an aggrieved air, why they 
could not have killed the bull. 
The mission station is situated very close to the beach, and 
is on the windward side of the island. Being thus open to the 
cool trade winds, it is very healthy ; but the situation has these 
disadvantages—that no flowers can be grown round the house, and 
that the front windows can never be kept clean, on account 
of the spray showers which are continually flymg up from 
the breakers. 
Mission Station at Kwamera, Tana. 
There is no place like this, I think, for seeing breakers, as 
there is nothing to stop them until they roll in upon the rocky 
beach. The time at which they appear to greatest advantage 
is not during a gale, as might be imagined, but immediately after it. 
During a gale the waves come rushing on, and dash themselves 
blindly upon the rocks, in too confused a way to rise into breakers, 
