Four or five feet away was the verandah from which a doorway led into one of the rooms of the house where stood a table on which was food.
Kneeling on mats upon this verandah were--_two white women_--clothed in garments of the purest white adorned with a purple fringe, and wearing bracelets and other ornaments of red native gold.

One of these appeared to be about forty years of age.

She was rather stout, fair in colouring, with blue eyes and golden hair that hung down her back.

The other might have been about twenty.

She also was fair, but her eyes were grey and her long hair was of a chestnut hue.