long list of questions to ask about home; as he had just left port he gave us all kinds of fruit and vegetables and these tasted very good to us.

The 29th of March 1869 just five months from the day we left N. Bedford we landed in Honolulu.

This is a most beautiful island and climate, and I love to think of the pleasant days I spent there.

Prescott had been on the ship so long, that he had forgotten the land and did not want to get out of the boat and cried.

We rented a cottage on Fort St, and occupied it with Mrs. Mellen and her little girl Laura then two years old.