off to the Moana Hotel with Rustom and the boys, while Adi, Chanji, and I collected the luggage. As Baba had decided that Rustom must sail that night on the Monterey which was leaving for Samoa and Australia, he had a great deal to talk over with him.

"After collecting all, we drove to the Moana, a distance of 2½ miles out of Honolulu on Waikiki Beach. I can imagine no more beautiful spot in the world than Waikiki, and the only blot is the American bar on the island which otherwise would be Paradise. Adi and I went into Honolulu later in the morning and went to Cook's about tickets, etc., and lunched there. On returning to the hotel, Baba gave me an hour off, so I went and had the most marvelous bathe of my life. At 3:30 we all assembled in Baba's room and then went to the Cocoanut Grove in the gardens of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel which adjoins the Moana. There we saw a splendid performance of Hawaiian dancers and singing. The dancers wear the short grass skirts, and the singers long dresses with trains called `holoku', with wreathes and leis. The holoku is made of flowered chiffons; holoku means literally 'run up'. The dresses were so called when the Singer Sewing Machine first appeared in Honolulu and these dresses were run up by the hundred.

“The Hawaiians are a joyous, good tempered, happy race. Honolulu is full of music, flowers, dancing, singing, and the sun. Flowers are so cheap that one can get a lei of gardenias for 25 cents. Food is not expensive either, and the smaller hotels are reasonable and good. I had letters to various people but only presented one to Mrs. Walter Dillingham, the uncrowned queen of Honolulu society.

She lives in a villa called `La Pietra' on a hill towards Diamond Head, and her villa is a copy of her uncle Arthur Acton's villa of the same in Florence. After the dancing, we went in a car for a general drive and to the pineapple groves outside of Honolulu, where we drank copiously of pineapple juice. On our return, Baba called me into his room and we had a long talk. First, he reproved Carl for his behaviour which was getting worse all the time, and then he talked seriously to me of his change of plans. He told Carl that he was sending him back to Los Angeles on Saturday in charge of an American lady; and he said that this boy would go back to California and speak evilly of us (which he subsequently did). Baba then spoke to me about his intended change of plans which included his postponing breaking his silence, and his trip via China and India to Italy (where I was to meet him at the end of July, find a villa, and assemble a few of the Western followers.) I was ordered to return to California and break the news to everyone, settle everything in the best way possible, give Meredith his tickets to return to New York and $500 to pay his and Margaret's passage back to England where Baba wished him to continue his work at East Challacombe.(Meredith had gone to Santa