The life of Robert Louis Stevenson for boys and girls . te to Cum-mie, in a little bay surrounded by greenmountains, on which sheep are grazing, andthere are birds very like our own blackiessinging in the trees. If it were not for thegroves of cocoa-nut palms, we might almostfancy ourselves in our own dear land. Butthe climate here is simply perfect. Of courseit is hot, but there are always fresh . We have our principal meal at twelveoclock, and spend the after part of the dayon shore . . bathing, gathering shells, knit-ting, or reading. Our Japanese cook andsteward just sets out the
The life of Robert Louis Stevenson for boys and girls . te to Cum-mie, in a little bay surrounded by greenmountains, on which sheep are grazing, andthere are birds very like our own blackiessinging in the trees. If it were not for thegroves of cocoa-nut palms, we might almostfancy ourselves in our own dear land. Butthe climate here is simply perfect. Of courseit is hot, but there are always fresh . We have our principal meal at twelveoclock, and spend the after part of the dayon shore . . bathing, gathering shells, knit-ting, or reading. Our Japanese cook andsteward just sets out the table with coldmeats, fruit, and cake so that we can takeour other meal at any time in the eveningthat suits us. l( Fanny and I are dressed like natives, intwo garments. As we have to wade to andfrom the boat in landing and coming back,we discard stockings, and on the sands weusually go barefoot entirely. Louis wearsonly a shirt and trousers with the legs andarms rolled up as far as they will go, and heis always barefooted. You will therefore 130. o (A IN THE SOUTH SEAS not be surprised to hear that we are all asred as lobsters. It is a strange irresponsiblehalf savage life, and I sometimes wonder ifwe shall ever be able to return to civilizedhabits again. The natives are very simple and kindlypeople. The Roman Catholic priests havepersuaded them to give up their constantwars and the practice of cannibalism, thoughonly within recent years. . Louis has learned a good many words ofthe language, and with the help of signs cancontrive to carry on a conversation, but Ihave stuck fast with two words: lka-ohawhich means How do you do? thank you,and good bye, and I am not quite sure howmuch else, and Mitai, meaning good, nice,pretty, kind. I dont expect to get beyondthese, but it is wonderful how much one canexpress with them. . The natives have got names for us was at first the old man, much to hisdistress; but now they call him Ona mean-ing owner of the yacht, a name he gr
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