CHAPTER XLIX.

Brown Road.--Semi-Civilization.--Excursion to Pomarce Country House at Papoa.--The Queen and her Hen-coop Habitation.--School.--Fondness for Flowers.--Native Dinner.--Jack the Head Waiter.--Finger Glasses.--We sleep in the Palace, and are Serenaded.--Visit from a Tahitian Noble, and how he conducted himself.--Coral Groves in the Harbor.--Islet of Motunata. 400