The scales consisted of two tin pans of equal size and weight hung from a balance beam.

The only weight was a stone weighing a pound.
In case a Juave woman wished to buy a quarter-of-a-pound of cotton, the procedure was as follows: The weight was put into one pan of the scales and a pound of cotton weighed out into the other; the weight was then removed and the cotton divided, so as to balance in the two pans; one of the pans was then emptied, and the remaining cotton again divided, with the result that a quarter-of-a-pound of cotton had been weighed.
One curious feature, which we had not seen elsewhere, but which Dr.
Castle had warned us we should find, was the nightly guard set upon us.
As we lay upon our beds at night, looking out upon the white sand in front of us, we could see, by the moonlight, at some little distance, a circle of eight or ten men who spent the night sleeping within call.
Another striking feature was the music which we heard in the late evening and early morning.

In the early morning, five o'clock or earlier, and at sunset, there was service in the church.

Later on, at eight, there was again singing in the churchyard, lasting until quite a late hour.

One evening, on investigating, we found eight or ten men kneeling on the sand before the church door, singing in the moonlight.
They were practicing for the procession and special service of the second Friday of Lent.
The water-life of the Juaves is at once picturesque and curiously tame.
The men spend much of their time on or in the water.