Show r I SATURDAY Feb We 17 17 We moved ed to tho tue Aba Aina Pare hotel and paId 70 francs for one week I have ha often seen these gei ger get canoes fitted with sails go skip skip- skipping skipping skipping ping over o the waves at a merry clip and just as ns often have bave wished I were In one Well I had that tha experience today A nath e boy In inthe Ii the local French navy took me m ou out nearly to the time reef and back twice We went breezing alon along at nt about abou 10 knots the canoe nearly nearby skipping water on time the turns so steeply did she bank It was great grent sport and an wo we 0 went within a n few yards I of Motu Uta a n tiny palm covered Isle In the lagoon I Mareta Marcta a young native e lady whom wham I met In church asked me If It I would like JIke a belt with a ap i p shell pearl buckle which she hud bind made I said yes so she Blie brought It for my amy Inspection Ins I though It was Just another ca case e of inn Ian generosity but she said first 25 francs then 20 O and then 15 so soI I I said no Struck up an with a n couple of white girls irs on time the tonight ht We thou thought ht they lust Just spoke French nn l Tahitian and andI I was long don my manful test best to flirt with them In rul They let me stumble on for a n long time to their theirs s secret fret amusement and thEn end sud su 1 denly to my consternation find complete completo surprise one of them her asked In iii very r good English Why dont don't you talk In En lIsh not doln doing en to welt well In iii I l Wits WIlS I tilled mom I Dunt esk esi And AntI ver the they at me mae IWo I Wo We talked end and walked nIhil rind I found that time the uno who me lime in inmost most Is la named N was wis born here of Norwegian elan and antl English par parents and has lias never ne bc been n any finy place pince Is else except for tor one ona trip to the Marque Marque- gaa sas She Slie speakS En English French and Spanish h keeps beep hus busy sewing sc in for tourists and anil white lad lady lally residents and Is very pretty anc i charming SUNDAY Feb F b VIsited IS-VIsited 18 Visited at atthe at n t the mission house before Sunda school then attended that am antl I sacrament meeting Mrs Mt's Poll Polly Mal Malbory lory bory Invited me to sta stay to dinner and did that meal taste good I It I Iwas t was a treat to eat a good home home- cooked meal macat again Po came or- or orme me and we w wen nt t to a n lonel lonely place where I taught taugh I him two Hawaiian son songs Imi songs R Ai At Au AuIs AtIs 1 Is Oe Oc and lie He e surely f fI picks up the words and tunes I I ly iy W We sang eang them In church tonIght t to the accompaniment of guitar and 1 ukulele We td tO go over oyer OK Tho five e missionaries tried Uta Utah i Trail Teall but broke down and quit bl- bl be beI b fore finishing Anyway it I the congregation of or over o 50 O with a x t laugh h und mind was hurt burt I haven't seen many license plates on cars most here here most of time tile cars have havethe havethe the license number r- r painted hand on o otho tho the body bod or trunk The highest num her I have noticed was dred something so I take It that t there are about that many cars on the Island Gasoline Is high too about 30 to 35 cents per gallon K R and I went shopping und mind I purchased n a largo barge stock of or s which must have e weighed d sit at mt least lea lea- 05 pOUn pounds s and ansi contained 15 11 dozen or inore han I only 3 francs or approximately IS 18 cents for it It was a i job for time the two of ofus us liS to o lu lug It to the time hotel botel We wont won't won starve for a few dar days anyway We WA made friends with a nm nia Englishman who Is sunlit nurse to 11 ii retired invalid banker banIer Ito IIo doesn't click did very cry well with the theold old gents gent's ent's wife wile mind so ho lie took u n room at time the hotel lintel as the o of their quarrel Time Tho old inca mun sent for him to o come back however anti and ho dl did so today leaving lea us a basket of I L J c J |