This house is beautifully clean, and wonderfully comfortable considering all things. It is the home of Aquilla, the native minister, who has a very nice neat wife, and four pretty little girls, including the nicest baby I have seen in Fiji. This afternoon little Mary was my sole companion on a long walk over steep hills, following a narrow path through the tall reeds, till we came to the place of graves (_ai mbulu mbulu_). We found a flat hill-top cleared, with the graves in the centre, overshadowed by one noble old tree. The view was magnificent. The Fijians invariably select a beautiful spot wherein to lay their dead, and also one difficult of access, and well concealed, pointing to the hideous dangers of cannibal days. I daresay you wonder if my dreams are not haunted by all the horrible stories I hear of those old days. Happily they are not; indeed the only thought that abides in my mind is of thankful wonder at a change which seems almost miraculous, so gentle and courteous are these people who, the last thing at night, and the first thing in the morning, slip quietly into the house, and kneel reverently while prayers are offered, invariably ending with the familiar blessing, which now falls on my ear as naturally as if uttered in our mother tongue:— “A loloma ni noda Turaga ko Jisu Karisito, kei na loloma ni Kalou ko Tamada, kei na veilomani ni Yalo Tabu me tiko vei keda kieega ogo ka tawa mudu. Emeni.” “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen.” You must not forget to sound an _n_ before the letters _d_, _g_, and _q_, and an _m_ before _b_—thus: no_n_da—Tura_n_ga—Tama_n_da—Yalo Ta_m_bu—ke_n_da—o_n_go—mu_n_du. Now once more good night, and peaceful be your slumbers. _P.S._—In case you wish, to say the Lord’s Prayer in Fijian, here it is:— “Our Father. “Tama i keimami mai loma lagi, me vakavokovoko taki na yacamu, me yaco mai na nomu lewa, me caka na nomu veitalia e vura vura me vaka mai loma lagi. Solia mai vei keimami e na siga ogo nakakana e yaga vei keimami. “Kakua ni cudru vei keimami e na vuku ni neimami vala vala ca me vaka keimami sa sega ni cudru vei ira sa vala vala ca vei keimami. “Kakua ni kauti keimami ki na vere, ia mai na ca ga mo ni vaka bulai keimami; ni sa nomu na lewa kei na kaukauwa kei na vakarokoroko e sega ni oti. Emeni.” The foregoing version of the Lord’s Prayer is that in general use. The version used by the Lotu Katolika—_i.e._, the Roman Catholic Church—is as follows:— “Tama i keimami, ni sa tiko mai loma lagi, me tabu raki na yaca muni; me yaco mai na nomuni lewa; me ia na loma muni e vura vura me vaka mai loma lagi.