102 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
After the service the Defense Force paraded, led by their band, 
and then proceeded back to their barracks. They are a well dis- 
ciplined body of men and make a fine appearance, being well set 
up, with their imposing head-dress of bushy hair and khaki uni- 
forms consisting of a military blouse, belt and the ‘‘sulu’’ for 
trousers. The Defense Force wore sulus which terminated below 
in a number of sharply pointed flaps and their legs and feet were 
bare. 
A prominent member of the band was Savou, clerk to Secretary 
Fell, a fine looking, upstanding fellow with the handsomest head 
of hair I saw in Fiji and was exceedingly proud of it. He could 
speak English, and allowed me to photograph him in his uniform, 
the particular point of interest being his hair. He was quite will- 
ing to talk about it and I asked him to tell how the imposing re- 
sult was achieved. He said that the main thing was to keep it 
clean and that he washed it thoroughly twice a day in warm 
weather and once in cold weather. It was then carefully dried, 
after which coconut oil was rubbed in thoroughly so as to reach 
the scalp. The real dandies, of which he was evidently a good 
specimen, never rested the head on the ground or a pillow when 
sleeping. Instead they used a section of round wood such as 
bamboo placing it beneath the neck instead of the head so that 
the precious head-dress could not be disarranged. Savou was one 
of the men who accompanied Secretary Fell and three of our 
party on the trip to the interior, and our men admired him 
greatly. 
The Defense Force is regarded by the Colonial authorities as a 
valuable military body, excellent soldiers who take naturally to 
the life of the constabulary, are brave and obedient to orders. 
Fiji, by the way, furnished its full quota of men in the great war 
and is naturally proud of it. It seems to me that Great Britain’s 
management of native troops is one of the real mainstays of her 
Colonial policy, and they have seldom proved unfaithful; so far 
as I have been able to ascertain they are uniformly loyal to their 
king. 
Savou escorted Glock and me to the Fiji museum which is in 
the Botanical Gardens beyond the Grand Pacific Hotel and on the 
Victoria Parade. This Parade is a sort of boulevard well worth 
seeing, broad and well-paved leading along the shore from the 
main business section to and beyond the well kept, imposing 
Botanical Gardens which are themselves a credit to the metropolis 
