On the following morning we left Sapapalii for Amoa, a station about eight miles distant, at which the inhabitants had built a chapel, and were all receiving Christian instruction. In going thither, we passed through a settlement called Safatulafai, which is one of the most beautiful in the group, and which astonished and delighted me. We could more easily have imagined ourselves in an English park, than in a heathen village. A broad road of hard sand ran through it; a spacious building for their public business and amusements occupied the centre; and, at various distances, there were lawns of beautiful greensward, which were appropriated to club-fights, fencing, wrestling, and boxing-matches. The pathway was overshadowed by the wide-spreading branches of the tamanue, and other gigantic trees, while the neat houses of the inhabitants were partially concealed by the foliage of the bread-fruit trees and bananas, among which they were embowered. This settlement was kept in excellent order, and had an air of respectability which could not have been looked for among a people, in other respects, so barbarous. Before we reached Amoa, we passed through two or three other settlements, which, although large, were inferior to Safatulafai. But what rendered these most interesting was, that in one of them a chapel was finished, and in a second the inhabitants were preparing to erect another. After spending a short time with the chiefs, and addressing to them a few words of encouragement, we proceeded on our journey, and reached Amoa, which we found to be an extensive settlement, but inferior in beauty to that through which we had passed.