Terres du Pacifique oriental ; Tahiti et les îles Marquises . jusqu'à la tahie1 ; et les vallées de Hakaui et Hatiheu. Midwayentre Hatiheu et Taiohae est la vallée de Taipi, la Type de Herman Melville, où le marin aventureux s'est si étroit échappé avec l'hislife. La vallée d'Hakaui était l'demeure préférée du prince Stanislas (Taniha) Moanatini et de l'hisépouse la princesse Sabine, fils et belle-fille de la reine Erythapeta Vaekehu, l'une des dernières survivantes, et tout à fait intéressant des entrtes polyne-potsiens. Depuis la perte de son mari, TeMoana (la Mowanna de Herman Melville)

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Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . ay down to Tahiti1 ;and the valleys of Hakaui and Hatiheu. Midwaybetween Hatiheu and Taiohae is the valley of Taipi, the Typee of Herman Melville, whence thatadventurous mariner so narrowly escaped with hislife. Hakaui Valley was the favourite abode of thelate Prince Stanislaus (Taniha) Moanatini and hiswife the Princess Sabine, the son and daughter-in-law of Queen Eritapeta Vaekehu, one of the lastsurviving, and quite the most interesting of Polyne-sian potentates. Since the loss of her husband, TeMoana (the Mowanna of Herman Melville), followedby that of her favourite son in 1893, the good oldlady, now well stricken in years, who is a fervent andsincere Catholic, has retired into a life of devotion, under the care and ministrations of the worthypriests who have done much of late to defend herrights, and comfort her declining years. It gives the 1 According to Mr. J. L. Doty, the American Consul in Tahiti, this line of sailing vessels has been superseded by a monthlyservice of steamers.. a .c < - O c | I The Marquesas Group 85 present writer much pleasure to bear witness to thegood deeds of these excellent men, who have shownsuch devotion and self-sacrifice in the midst of un-promising surroundings, all undeterred by frequentill-success, and to note their ready welcome and cor-diality to the passing stranger. The same remarksapply equally to the admirable patience of theCatholic sisterhood teaching in the various schools, for, gentle and docile as the Marquesan girls are, training them up in the narrow path is no easy matterin a land where purity of morals is so lightly esteemed.One of the smaller native houses in the valley ofHaka-Ui near Tai-o-Hae, is here shown, built, as allnative dwellings are, on the top of a massive stoneplatform raised four or five feet high like those ofthe people of Ponape in the eastern Caroline group.They are mostly thatched with the leaf of the pan-danus, sometimes with that of t

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