Show lavell la veil Maniva Man rings enjoy feast of fried bananas pies in so pacific by mr and mrs lavell manwaring M mr r and mrs lavell manwar in ing 9 of naps who recently were tailed called on oil a inis mission sion to tonga con continue tin tit ir description of 11 r tr travels ind and the tile hibits and ct customs to ns of the native people wilh V ith whom they come into con t act t we ailed from suva figi on th ship hip M V lottia which is a now new zealand ship it wis was small C 01 11 tred to tit the the afternoon we arrived we saw aw the dince dance the put on for fot dibov on in the tile inn it wa 1110 kitei mattin mm tin took us its over to 1 real tonga r nga s supper 1 er the ni na lives prepared an pared it they put it on the floor had palm leaves for tit the cover 1 I ible cloth they had veral dishes of food I 1 liked the tile c corn or beef and cooked bananas but some of the food I 1 care for the natives are so kind I 1 was sweeping weeping off mv my boidi and here her ca 11 ne a fellow and took the tile broom and swept for me adoth cr er little follow fellow was wall out pump ing the water there is a big round 1 tank ank with a barrel on top tot the rain water runs off the tile house into this tank then it has to be pumped up into the tile barrel then we turn it into the lines in the house turn on the tap and we have water we will have to boil all of our drinking water there are three large windows on the south and one on the east cast and west of our house three screens in between the windows window clear around the corners so the breezes can come in on the outside of the screens there are louvers lauvers lou vers happy people the natives are a happy people play guitars and sing and dance they love it many of the men wear skirts over their shorts the children dp do also many of the children just wear shorts and shirts nearly all of them go barefooted all the ladles at relief society were barefooted and there were about 50 or 60 present today march 7 we went to a groundbreaking ground breaking ceremony for one of the chapels the natives fixed a tongan feast we sat on the floor on mats and ate with our fingers they weave leaves from the coconut tree and put large green banana leaves on top of the woven leaves that is the table and holds the food we dish out a tablespoonful on the green leaf and eat boasted plas they had three little roasted on fried fish two kinds with heads on A dish in green leaves full of corned beef yams bams and a vegetable they call it bread fruit there was pudding in leaves tied at top it was in thick syrup made from brown sugar the leaves are the dish we ate it out of the leaves with our fingers it kinda shocks you at first but you just start eating for five shillings which is boc 12 cents a shilling I 1 got a hank and a half of bananas about we hang them out on the front porch to ripen A friend abraham a member came last night inight and brought another stock of bananas and take a cent he lie went to his bush for them each man has eight acres of land given by the government when they die it goes back to the government the services are nice but we cant understand them the lan ion peace 1 is 19 9 strange very few speak english and very broken at that we are going to get some lessons or take some bome from the school writes of S suva a at suva fiji ision island d where they waited for the boat on to tonga mrs manwaring writes of tome some of the experiences they had there they are very modern in fiji with buses running and cars and taxis galore the sign post in the center of the street is a man he ile just waves his hand for signals many people men and women wear their hair straight up three or four inches we saw rice fields and a large sugar fac tory and many straw houses with thatched roots roofs which arc are built up tip off the ground as it rains so much there we had a large open market it was wag hard to shop because the money was so different an american sl 00 is only worth 84 cents in fiji I 1 the Man address Is boc box 58 tonga |