9S UPOLU— M ANONO— S AVAIL 



Sagana is a neat settlement, and is regularly laid out ; it is situated 

 on a small peninsula, across whose isthmus a stone wall has been 

 erected, for the purpose of protecting the plantations within it from 

 the swine. The village contains about six hundred inhabitants, and 

 there is a school composed of about fifty scholars kept by Mr. Wilson, 

 one of the missionary teachers, son of the missionary at Matavai Bay. 



No preparation had been made to receive us, for I came unan- 

 nounced ; nor, indeed, had it been my intention to stop, but hearing 

 that this was the residence of Malietoa, and that he was at home, Ave 

 paid him a visit. He was well advanced in age, and it was generally 

 remarked that he bore a striking resemblance to General Jackson. 

 The resemblance is not confined to that of person only ; for Malietoa 

 possesses also not a little of the same energy of character. 



I have rarely seen a place where more attention is paid to clean- 

 liness than at Sagana. A similar regard to neatness prevails in the 

 walks around the village, and in the cultivation of the taro, melons, 

 and bananas, which is carried on in the immediate vicinity. The 

 paths leading to these cultivated grounds pass through fine shady 

 groves. The preservation of the broad walks and paths appears to 

 be rather an amusement than a labour to the villagers. 



Here Malietoa was seen in his domestic circle, with his wives and 

 children around him. I found him in a small house, enjoying the 

 afternoon breeze, with his daughter playing about him. She was 

 about fifteen years of age, and decidedly the prettiest girl we had 

 seen in this group ; her name was Emma, and she was as intelligent 

 as she was pretty. 



The chief, whose hair was white with age, made us warmly wel- 

 come, and wished to go over to his fale-tele to receive us as became 

 chiefs, but this I would not permit. His wives busied themselves in 

 getting things in order, very much after the fashion of other parts of 

 the world, when a stranger arrives unexpectedly. In a few minutes 

 the fine mats were laid, the stools, calabashes, and straw put away. 

 A clean shirt was slipped over the old man's head while my attention 

 was called off to another object. 



Malietoa's house was not larger than the others in the village, and 

 exhibited no other difference from them than in containing a dais or 

 platform, occupying about a third of it, and raised about a foot higher 

 than the rest of the floor. 



When the domestic arrangements were completed, large bunches 

 of bananas and fresh cocoa-nuts were brought in and presented to us. 



