This was considered a great stroke of legislative reform! It was the fashion of the native visitors to the _Spray_ to come over the bows, where they could reach the head-gear and climb aboard with ease, and on going ashore to jump off the stern and swim away; nothing could have been more delightfully simple.

The modest natives wore _lava-lava_ bathing-dresses, a native cloth from the bark of the mulberry-tree, and they did no harm to the _Spray_.

In summer-land Samoa their coming and going was only a merry every-day scene.

One day the head teachers of Papauta College, Miss Schultze and Miss Moore, came on board with their ninety-seven young women students.
They were all dressed in white, and each wore a red rose, and of course came in boats or canoes in the cold-climate style.

A merrier bevy of girls it would be difficult to find.