ten of their enemies from the mainland.

About nine, we went ashore near the anchorage. I crossed the island to
the village, but did not feel satisfied as to the position. One of our
guides to the village wore, as an armlet, the jawbone of a man from the
mainland he had killed and eaten; others strutted about with human bones
dangling from their hair, and about their necks. It is only the village
Tepauri on the mainland with which they are unfriendly. We returned to
the boat, and sailed along the coast. On turning a cape, we came to a
pretty village, on a well-wooded point. The people were friendly, and
led us to see the water, of which there is a good supply. This is the
spot for which we have been in search as a station for beginning work. We
can go anywhere from here, and are surrounded by villages. The mainland
is not more than a gunshot across. God has led us. We made arrangements
for a house for the teachers; then returned to the vessel.

In the afternoon, I landed the teachers, their wives, and part of their
goods--the people helping to carry the stuff to the house. The house in
which the teachers are to reside till our own is finished is the largest
in the place, but they can only get the use of one end of it--the owner,
who considers himself the chief man of the place, requiring the other end
for himself and family. The partition between the two ends is only two
feet high. Skulls, shells, and cocoanuts are hung all about the house;
the skulls are those of the enemies he and his people have eaten. Inside
the house, hung up on the wall, is a very large collection of human
bones, bones of animals and of fish.

I selected a spot for our house on the point of land nearest the
mainland. It is a large sand hill, and well wooded at the back. We have
a good piece of land, with bread-fruit and other fruit trees on it, which