We had each of us caught a couple, when what was our astonishment, on pressing aside the grass, to see directly before us a canoe with three girls in it!  Two of them were busily employed in beating out the rice into their canoe, while the one who sat in the bow, on hearing the noise we made, turned her head with an inquiring but somewhat alarmed glance towards us.  Yes!  I could not be mistaken; it was Lily!  Just before her sat Dora, while Ashatea occupied the stern.