. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. WAR CANOE OF THE OLDEN TIME. ? The majority of the students are Samoans; the rest are from allthe islands of the South Pacific, whence they have been sent by thelocal missionaries. They study arithmetic, geography, and of courselearn to read and write, and besides these ordinary branches of educa-tion they devote considerable time to the Scripture
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. WAR CANOE OF THE OLDEN TIME. ? The majority of the students are Samoans; the rest are from allthe islands of the South Pacific, whence they have been sent by thelocal missionaries. They study arithmetic, geography, and of courselearn to read and write, and besides these ordinary branches of educa-tion they devote considerable time to the Scriptures and to theology. Every Saturday evening there is a prayer-meeting, at Avhich thestudents make short exhortations. On Sunday there are three services 138 THE BOY TEAVELLEKS IN AUSTRALASIA. —morning, afternoon, and evening; and there are Sunday-schools forthe children and Bible classes for the older folks. On the first Sundayof each month there is a communion - service, after the manner ofchurches in England and other civilized lands. We harve not seen any-where in the Pacific a finer assemblage of native men and women than. CANOES DRAWN ON SHORE. the class at this college; they had bright, intelligent faces, and we weretold that they were all so anxious to progress in their studies that theyrarely infringed any of the rules of the institution, the one most fre-quently violated being that which required them to stop studying atnine oclock and go to bed. It was getting quite dark when we returned to Apia and foundour old quarters on the yacht. They wanted us to stay all night at themission school; but there were so many of us that we thought it best tocome back to Apia lest we might incommode our hosts by thrustingsuch a large number of visitors on them at once. You may be sure weslept soundly in our cabins, as we were all thoroughly tired long but very interesting excursion. After a few days at Apia the yacht proceeded to Pango-Pango, inTutuila Island, a distance
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