IN TIMOB. ib'd 



kingdom as long as his wife is alive, and his children belong 

 to the kingdom of his adoption. If, however, there are more 

 children than two, a boy, or a boy and a girl, belong to the 

 husband, and are at liberty to return to, and are in ftict 

 claimed by his father's kingdom, and are the inheritors of 

 his property, while the rest are heirs of her's. When the 

 queen dies, her consort returns to his father's kingdom, but 

 he can take with him nothing from his wife's home ; every- 

 thing there belongs to her children. If he die first, his body 

 is carried to his own family burying-ground ; but I am not 

 sure by whom the death-and-burial feasts are provided. 



If the Kajah of Bibifuyu, for instance, have no' children, 

 the jjeople of his kingdom beg the services of a son always of 

 the Eajah of Manufahi, as their Eajah, for the payment of a 

 certain sum to his kingdom as hire. His new kingdom then 

 purchases a wife for him, if he be unmarried. Should the 

 kingdom of Manufahi lose all heirs to its throne, it may 

 demand back again the reigning Eajah of Bibifufu. If he 

 has children while Eajah of BibifUfu, or afterwards, they 

 belong to the kingdom which purchased for him his wife, 

 with the reservation just mentioned, of a boy or a boy and a 

 girl to become his heirs. If, however, the kingdom of Bibi- 

 pufu has louglit and not hired merely the son of the Eajah of 

 Manufahi, he cannot be recalled on a vacancy occurring in 



his own father's kingdom. 



In the sunny valley of Serarata, near a picturesque water- 

 fall, butterflies, chiefly of the common families of Fieridx and 

 Lyca^nidw, were abundant, and formed all along the water's 

 edge quite a border of bright colour. Bird-life was far 

 scarcer than nearer the northern coast, but along the more 

 wooded flat lands by the southern shores, the natives informed 

 me that they are very plentiful. A lively little Pipit {Antlms 

 medius), with the perfect habits and call of a Wagtail, fre- 

 quented the barer grass fields in flocks, while among the 

 shrabberies a pretty Cisficola which I first took to be a wren, 

 and a black Fantail Flycatcher {EUfidiira rujiveniris), flitted 

 about with the restless habit of their tribe. A bright orange 

 PaeJiijcephala and a species of Tit (Parus tlmcrensu), which I 

 did not obtain, were not uncommon. On the trees the white- 

 headed Fruit-pigeon {Ftihpus dndm) sat motionless during 



