In the Marquesas Islands the early missionaries who came from the Indies made the mistake of keeping Sunday on Saturday.

Their followers preserve this chronology, while later converts have the correct one.

The result is, there are two Sabbaths among the Christian inhabitants of the cannibal islands.
The boy who desired two Sundays a week in order to have more resting time, might be accommodated by becoming a Marquesas colonist.
On the day we crossed this meridian we were three hundred miles from the nearest Aleutian Islands, and about eight hundred from Kamchatka.
The boobies continued around us, but were less numerous than a week or ten days earlier.

If they had any trouble with their reckoning, I did not ascertain it.

A day later we saw three "fur seal" playing happily in the water.