He afterward copied the essay for me in a clear hand.
Calling to say good-by to my friends at Vailima, I met Mrs.Stevenson in her Panama hat, and went over the estate with her.

Men were at work clearing the land, and to one of them she gave an order to cut a couple of bamboo-trees for the _Spray_ from a clump she had planted four years before, and which had grown to the height of sixty feet.

I used them for spare spars, and the butt of one made a serviceable jib-boom on the homeward voyage.

I had then only to take ava with the family and be ready for sea.

This ceremony, important among Samoans, was conducted after the native fashion.