The lower is the eating room, having a broad table with several stools placed round it.

The lower room communicates with the upper, by a stout ladder in the centre.
Immediately round the village are small enclosures for fattening pigs, goats, and poultry; and beyond them are the cultivated grounds producing the banana, plantain, melon, yam, taro, sweet potatoes, _tee_-tree, cloth-plant, with other useful roots, fruits, and a variety of shrubs.
Every cottage has its out-house for making cloth, its baking-place, its pig-sty, and its poultry-house.
During the stay of the strangers on the island, they dined sometimes with one person, and sometimes with another, their meals being always the same, and consisting of baked pig, yams, and taro, and sometimes sweet potatoes.

Goats are numerous on the island, but neither their flesh nor their milk is relished by the natives.

Yams constitute their principal food, either boiled, baked, or mixed with cocoa-nut, made into cakes, and eaten with molasses extracted from the tee-root.

Taro-root is no bad substitute for bread; and bananas, plantains, and _appoi_, are wholesome and nutritive fruits.