The clergyman took his station between two beds, with a lamp burning close behind him.

In the bed on his right were three infants sound asleep; at the foot of that on his left were three men sitting.

On each side and in front were the men, some wearing only the simple mara, displaying their gigantic figures; others in jackets and trousers, their necks and feet bare; behind stood the women, in their modest home-made cloth dresses, which entirely covered the form, leaving only the head and feet bare.
The girls wore, in addition, a sheet knotted in the manner of a Roman senator's _toga_, thrown over the right shoulder and under the left arm.
When the general confession commenced, they all knelt down facing the clergyman, with their hands raised to the breast in the attitude of prayer, slowly and distinctly repeating the confession after the clergyman.

They prayed for the King of England, whom they consider as their sovereign.

A sermon followed from a text which Captain Waldegrave thinks was most happily chosen: 'Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.' At the conclusion of the service they requested permission to sing their parting hymn, when the whole congregation, in good time, sang 'Depart in peace.' Captain Waldegrave, like all former visitors, bears testimony to the kind disposition and active benevolence of these simple islanders.