240 MAUI. 



received by the Rev. Mr. Greene, his lady, and Miss Ogden, who have 

 the charge of the establishment, which consists of eighty scholars, 

 between the ages of twelve and eighteen years. Every opportunity 

 was afforded me of inspecting the establishment, and while I found 

 much to commend, there were many things I could have desired to see 

 changed. 



In the first place, I was much struck with the appearance of a want 

 of cleanliness in the dresses of the scholars, contrasting so unfavour- 

 ably with the neatness and cleanliness of the rest of the establishment. 

 Neither can it be expected that they should imbibe cleanly habits, or be 

 able to preserve them, when they are allowed to wear their clothes 

 unchanged from the beginning to the end of the week. The dress 

 consists of the usual loose gown adopted in the islands, and in which 

 these children are allowed to sleep. On Saturday they wash, and on 

 Sunday make their appearance in a white cotton smock, shawl, and 

 bonnet, the latter of their own manufacture. Their dormitory is a long 

 adobe building, with walls two feet thick, divided into compartments 

 twelve feet by ten, each of which acommodates three scholars. More 

 than half of this space is occupied by their bed, which is made of mats 

 laid on a bank of ti-leaves, or sugar-cane, about two feet thick, with a 

 small pillow of about eight inches square. What clothes they had 

 were hung up in the corners, and a scanty supply they appeared to be. 

 Rolls of tapa were laid on the mats, which serve to cover them at 

 night. The only ventilation was through a small window and the top 

 part of the partition-wall, which was left open. I passed into several 

 of these small rooms, all of which had a musty smell, as of decayed 

 or mouldy vegetable matter. It was no longer a subject of surprise to 

 me that the establishment had obtained the name of being unhealthy, 

 or that several of the girls had died.* 



While Mr. Greene gives the scholars instruction in the various 

 departments of education, Miss Ogden teaches them all kinds of useful 

 employments, such as spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, 

 millinery, &c. She has, also, the superintendence of their eating 

 apartment, and no place could be better arranged than this part of the 

 establishment : every thing has a useful purpose, and one readily sees 

 the practical operation of all that is doing. I had the pleasure of 

 seeing the scholars at their meals, where all was regulated and went 

 according to rule : those who were appointed to " wash up" kept their 

 places while the rest left the table. They made a better appearance 



* I have since understood that this defect has been remedied, the scholars having been 

 provided with bedsteads and bedding, and that no cases of sickness have since occurred. 



