222 LETTER OF THE ADMIRAL'S SECRETARY. 
people, if they can, on Sundays. The women 
complain that they cannot get shoes ; but 
all the men can get them from the whalers. 
During the week, their dress consists chiefly 
of a dark-blue petticoat, and a white kind of 
shirt for the women ; and for the men loose 
shirt and trowsers. Their food consists chiefly 
of yams, cocoa-nuts, bananas, tacco, oranges, 
&c. &c. a few fish ; and in the yam season, 
each family kills a large pig, that during the 
hard work of digging yams they may have 
a little animal food. Sometimes they get 
goats'-flesh, and are trying to rear a few 
cattle they have there. The admiral gave 
them a young bull and cow, also a ram. 
" Both sexes work very hard indeed. They 
usually rise at dawn, have family prayers, 
* do the work that is necessary ; about dusk 
have supper; then they go to the singing- 
school or to Mr. Nobbs, or meet to have a 
chat. About nine or ten, they go to bed, 
previously having family worship. Should 
one of the little ones go to bed or to sleep 
during his mother's absence, she immediately 
awakes it to say its prayers. Not a soul on 
the island would dream of commencing a 
