Inscription: [below figure at left]: Otaota; [below central figure]: Siakumo; [at lower left]: La Farge 1891.; [at lower right]: Samoa. girls with canoe; [at bottom in margin]: My dear Bam, I send this as it is so far the most satisfactory of the sketches. paper has been wet in salt water / and the washing [?] out has made it absorbent as you see with this black india ink. I get [?] the thing [?] out in tone [?] so that it looks like a modern picture. might be any where--not here in South Seas, so I give it up.
