FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 95 
heard in church or Sunday School in the United States. It was 
evident, however, that not much attention was given to the real 
meaning of the songs, but this state of affairs is by no means con- 
fined to Fiji. 
The missionary and his wife had a good house on the highest 
point of the island and seemed comfortably situated. The Rey. 
Mr. Adamson was a fine manly type of fellow. As it was Sunday, 
the question of photographing the people at their daily tasks 
proved a very delicate one. I said that I had come a very long 
distance to visit the place and had only one day to spend at Bau, 
the most historic spot in Fiji; but that I was unwilling to do any- 
thing against his wishes. He said that he was ‘‘no sabbatarian’’ 
but that they had taken great pains to induce the people to be 
very strict in their observance of the Sabbath. While he did not 
feel that he could give his specific consent, he would not oppose 
us in the matter, particularly if the chief desired the photographs 
to be made; and so the matter rested. 
It would be impossible to find a greater contrast than the Bau 
of the present, in its quiet Sunday restfulness, with its earnest 
church services and orderly, neatly dressed people as we saw them 
that day, makes with the Bau of two generations ago. Then it 
was probably the bloodiest spot in all Fiji, perhaps in all of the 
South Seas, the seat of the Fiji kings and the home of the most 
war-like tribe. The men at that time were inveterate cannibals, 
parties from Bau going in the darkest night to the adjacent main- 
land for the purpose of clubbing a few unwary natives and re- 
turning with their ‘‘meat’’ for the subsequent horrible orgies of 
a cannibal feast. We were shown the stone against which it was 
the cheerful custom to dash out their victims’ brains. This stone 
is now in the Methodist church and at one time its hollowed top 
was used as a baptismal font! Afterward, however, this use was 
abandoned as being too gruesome to be associated with that sacra- 
mental function. It seems that King Cakobau, the grandfather of 
our host, was finally persuaded to adopt Christianity and gave 
this stone to the church in testimony of his change of heart and 
his ‘‘putting away of old things.”’ 
The lives of the first missionaries at Bau were far from pleasant, 
and we were told that on some occasions, when the missionary him- 
self left home on official tours, the natives would enliven the lone- 
liness of his wife by hanging fresh strips of human flesh on the 
