H.I.N. Moouga appears to have been of Mangarevan descent and foreman of a team of coconut plantation workers from French Polynesia and Niue, employed on Flint Island by J.T. Arundel and Co. of London.

The names of the workers are listed in the opening pages of the diary. The mixture of languages in which the diary is written may have been the lingua franca of the multi-lingual community on Flint Island. Moouga details daily weather conditions, prevailing winds, land areas cleared, coconut palms planted, coconuts harvested, crushed and cut. He describes also the difficult conditions under which the group worked - fire-ant infections, lack of medical care, lack of food, food contaminated by rust - and the often difficult relationships between the workers themselves and between them and the Arundel family. In the concluding pages of the diary, Moouga says that he has had more than enough of the life and asks to be repatriated.

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 1895, 5 May 1899-1909

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 1916-1926

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 16 July 1914-1915

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 1899, 1927-1946

Correspondence, cont. 1909 - 1 August 1910

Correspondence, cont. 1904 - 1908

Main journal entries written from brig "Vision", Butaritari, Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati); Mille, Arno, Majuro, Jaluij (Jaluit?), Namorik, Ebon, Marshall Islands group. On board schooners "Agnes Donald", "Fortune" and Lotus. Other islands mentioned but illegible.

'A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale’ (2020) is an unpublished digital edition edited by J.J. Overell. In 1870, Handley Bathurst Sterndale worked as a surveyor on the island of Upolu, Samoa, for the German trading company Goddefroy & Sohn. In this capacity, he made an expedition across Upolu, making notes and sketches about the journey as he went. In 1871, on Motu Kotawa on the islet of Pukapuka atoll in the Cook Islands, he worked these notes into the manuscript ‘Upolu; or, A Paradise of the Gods’, and worked his sketches into finished drawings. Some accounts are not his first hand observations and others are demonstrably wrong. Sterndale sought to have the manuscript published, but was unsuccessful in finding a publisher before his death in 1878. After his death, it was listed in a catalogue among the publications of Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington of London, but the manuscript never made it to print. It is now available as PMB MS 1442.

The original notebooks have since been lost, but the surviving manuscript and drawings have been passed down to Sterndale’s descendants. This collection brings together 73 of Sterndale's drawings of Samoa, Cook Islands and other islands of the Pacific. The images were digitised by photographer Rod Howe. The images are of scenes witnessed or imagined on his journey, including plants and animals, people, nature and village life.