Show A moat TUB 4 IX ik ill 0 1111 AllI 11 ario interestingly of ills Lo lobins birs samoa apolo island Ilan 1 december 38 the tood people of emery E anery and carbon ec will tea deaterly terly vly bare have no n but I 1 writ write to inform yourself am ana the AlTO AtI cut readers that bie ila article has een caroled across the grand old pacific Ji distance stance of but a little 1 iwo than fire ate thousand talles and land in the video state where ill its stoy ty will no n wirily ca eartly be brief a as the eat borud byer will be there to cany carry the new IOWA from the south beu peas acron the ui at american desert to if its deatina llon Is will remind kiy friend friends that three short year years bare panel lace since lait last we met tuot I 1 kill will begin my missive by laying saying that I 1 am well and hearty and enjoying my missionary labors very ritual and am pleased to report that tb elder elders on three these tile isles an are no exception to my blessed coo con we a all 11 hare bare reason to rejoice rr joJo for irm ke h ham hi wald 1 that hut we should not toil without gain nor labor without scarcely a wiek week passes without adding able help to our rank ranks the population 0 I 1 he be noan group consists of something like gner on cam kind hearted headed inhabitant inhabitants the humblest stranger will readily find flad a lome home among this hi chari charitable tab le people and w will ill be retted treated with the utmost cour tesy entertained all they expect la in jurn is i to duwer the questions qu they nry may ark the writer bai has deny times pent at from twilight to mid wid night canceling the debt the gereral strain if f question is I 1 its a follows pleass plea girt lr your royal high ness what gire give rie rise to your journey where did you come coins from I 1 is it a fact tact that it would uke a man forty dy days to walk from the seashore to where yon you amas in the tope top of the it mat must be larger than thin samoa 0 what did aid yon you get to eat in the tillage village yea lodged in last bight night by the way air hwe hive yon you a wim how many children barefoot bare hAvO YOu yooT la conr father and mother lipids do they grow bread froidl ban arms oranan to root roots and greens oil their theft plantation plantations are there any wild pig pigs in the bullit bay say my friend i if it yoo you only bad had some one one powder with yon you wo we would end send a wise man inso out in the timber to boot come some wild pigeon pigeons they are re j just ast I 1 in a beason and when cooked in an oren they are as its good to et eat as there large bats yoa yon see around here are there any ware on now in your country con when we have war here la ta samoa lola lots of fish come in from the deep sea and our fishermen spear them our women and girl go ont out on the reef reels at eight during the ebb tide and find and then asleep and with a torch la in one band and a large knife in the other they pierce them through and through and the poor creature creatures wake up just in time to find themselves Tw dead others are charmed by the light and se s e captured very easily bat but the thee day days are bad from the fact that w bare have had no war for over two year years it it were not for those big harshly wara hip lying in it yonder bar her bor belon belonging Ling to kugland and germany we would oon soon rally our force forces and dethrone the present king then the finny tinny tribe would oto tom m the bw but there ia is one bad feature about IL it we barent any ammunition and but few gals go and our old war elate clubs and pear are are almost useless ns elees why the lat lart time we were encamped at our garrison considering the possibilities of war the german gunboat ailed sailed up to within a mile 11 of nor troop troops and ordered as to disperse we WO answered anaw ered that we would not dumbri our congress until we got ready but I 1 tell yon you my friend we went before we were halt half ready those of us n whose urea lives were pared red to tell the tala belleve me true mister hey they fired off one of those big bit big birgine apas and an dm ww thing that barst A when it fell ra the gr alandt and allot it jast knockel knocket doru dora conr old mud walla wells while our wIckey ups and senators ena tora were in every diorec uon tion my dear air in yoni youl judg judgment meat what could coald bare have been inside of that ebell why your honor yoa you see it blew off my right tight arm I 1 suppose that america must have had bad a box fall of that stuff when they conquered great britain N now 0 w my faraway frienda friends I 1 would hare have yoa know that the samoan does not satee dynamite bat if U yon you are inclined to litten to ghost stories they can entertain yoa you nicely for weeks on that subject they still have many traditions ona in this direction and look to the tillage village ghost to warn them of war and fain ioe the writer baa has visited some of the quarter quarters of the supposed ghosts and baa bat blon into soma omett j pf their large conch she shell which are carefully stored stated away in a stone box and are an looked up as a very medium to warn them of approach approaching ins cyell I 1 hare also 1 seen and handled one of their r heathen goda gods which Is nothing more nor not leu low than a blae blue oral shaped jime stiner weighty ably two ban dred it in 1 1 to have been womb borao piled cram hundred year but now its only use la is lo 10 mark the onely curly apa t of a high chief wb abi they claim aa a la in strength an and I 1 a goliath in stature this grone conalee con alet of ten mall small islands ls land the largett ii bit at exco exceeding exceed ins 41 1 l by at 2 miles iw not er 3 00 tiet ret above the sea boyei and varying from that to the size blue pinnacle pinnacles between I 1 4 11 price and these evergreen spots pot were discovered pi early As 1711 1773 by a captain from Uila od it to is cl clawed almed that the th attim vr were numerous at tb hit it time they bao bi no written him bl tory gory among them but they bar a traill tion baided down from father to soo 00 that they cam came br beet from the h met which is aich ta I 1 a I very troy plausible pl ansiLl story to those who bitt iq in the dolc book of at mormon as a bell being authentic in fact their caory aloa alone can and do doe mako malre jain plain the th oria origin of this thi rc race it people and jbv fr drifting to thi his bud of at ma they are oot not unlike our american Amer lojo indiana in looks bat but seem oa far to them in 10 ous views and there ta is no to oab such thing as a atheism known among ibis people they bare bays no words la in their language that adamita of at violating the seventh commandment exodus 90 20 1 7 bat but ihry they bare have many bad worda words by which bleb their hatred and mall malice coe tle highest opprobrium that you can apply to 10 I 1 li Is a pig PIN or of to tell him ibal that yuu tva ia 1 la za 12 a an cv arcs these words wilt will roue arouse bis his as quickly as it will on n american to cat cast oo 00 his hi wife or mother I 1 hare have pent spent four two year years of at my time tims on this UPON blend upon her cregreen shares are some three hundred village mw cd their boost of tau a average population of fifty tool souls each tillage village bu has iti its own chief and talk loc urn man I 1 in whom era ir tested the I 1 law wa making aoi and coercive power powers their courts are conducted with great and decorum nd ind aristocratic langhage lan gnage only ia is heard to echo within their wigwam the punishment for crime committed ia is generally fixed by imposing a fine first they consid dT r how many pig pigs the offender and his tribe have on I 1 be he plan fallen as a h I 1 the fint arst considers lion that being the only recompense or NO that they an are to 10 receive for their ime time and slid talent and if their royal hight highnesses lesses deem it proper they may inflict farabe r punishment or end the ease by requiring a certain amount of mas to ba paid to the party should the offender belase to comply with the decision de cUlon they will call him op up and bear bis his rea for declining dining dr and if not bog Is factory thi tho y just double the fine tine then it not heeded they treble the dooe dose and anally tf if dot not complied with they con bis his property burn bum hi his hot but if he be hai one and drive driva the family from the tillage village IQ in caves of murder they sometimes execute alt all witnesses are worn with their hand on the paim bible 1 I bave learned to love the red man and for many dayi days have in my weak way sought with all my ruy heart and soul to asiat assist him tu to become a more wore perfect candidate for the eternal world I 1 must confess hat that he the wind that guides thi this pen hu many 11 res thought ot of the happy location of emery a atalie ta I 1 and her good people and to me too it will be a welcome day when once again gain I 1 may be one among thorn them at pi went elder edwia edwin smart of provo ia Is my worthy companion oar quarters are within the municipality of apia abia we are stopping with a chinaman and hu his family who we v born bom into a newness of life last jane june we hare have baptized thirteen oula souls within the lut last fire week weeks oar branch consists con of ome some forty fire are sonia souls among whom are am natives nI rrt half casts negroes and we have fifty fire ave children attending school and aa as eoon own ae as we move ioto into oar our new now meet ing house honse bieh is almost Ania lied we expect to wel swell our numbers considers bly we also 1 lure a good sabbath school und and our mutual la is a there ia is more work here than a eldera we cannot do the cause justice jo itice the call is not alone for elden mt a great wark is opening up for the ale als ten term as well W wo bare one on already ia in nur midst sister laverne whitbeck of canti she Is enjoying ill the beat best of en bein belth and performing a noble work the he ends sends kindest regards and best withes wishes to her many friends and relatives wishing yon you all a prosperous proe perona new mew year I 1 with beat bisbe yoni friend and brother A anum CoL siar |