Malietoa, being anxious that four of the teachers should take up their abode with him, had sent repeated messages on the preceding day to that effect; to which our people replied, that as we were expected on shore very shortly, they wished to defer a removal until we arrived. On being informed of this, we determined to place four of the teachers under his care, and to give the others in charge to his brother, who brought them on shore. Having made this arrangement, we thought it advisable to divide the present we intended to make into two equal parts: the one for the elder, the other for the younger brother. This consisted of one red and one white shirt, six or eight yards of English print, three axes, three hatchets, a few strings of sky blue beads, some knives, two or three pairs of scissors, a few small looking-glasses, hammers, chisels, gimlets, fish-hooks, and some nails. Every thing being prepared, we proceeded to the chief's large dancing-house, where we found a great concourse of people waiting to witness this important interview with le alii papalangi, or the English kings.

On our arrival being announced, Malietoa sent two of his own daughters to spread mats for us to sit upon. They were fine looking young women, about eighteen and twenty years of age, wearing a beautiful mat about the waist, a wreath of flowers as a head-dress, and a string of blue beads around the neck.