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breadth from 3 to 4. At their heads these bays 

 terminate in mangrove swamps, behind which are 

 small groves of cocoa-nuts. One or more streams 

 enter the sea at the head of each bay, and they are 

 navigable for small vessels for several miles inland. 

 These streams having neither bridge nor ferry, 

 travelling along this part of the coast can only be 

 done by good swimmers, — even they would have to 

 encounter the danger arising from the numerous 

 sharks which infest all these waters. The ridges that 

 extend seaward are thickly covered with noko noko 

 (casuarina) and balawa trees, brushwood and grass. 

 Low rolling hills lie beyond the flats, and like those 

 just referred to are covered with grass and brush- 

 wood. In making their roads the natives have, 

 in several places, dug deep into these hills, and have 

 exposed the sub-soil, which is found at times to 

 consist of white and red clay. The estimated area of 

 good cane land on the Macuata coast, extending from 

 Macuata island to Uclu Point, is about 40 square miles. 

 Most of it lies in small areas, of 100 acres and up- 

 wards, each. In working such land small and com- 

 paratively inexpensive "plant," capable of making 

 2 or 3 tons of sugar per week, will be particularly 

 useful in developing this and similar localities in 

 Fiji. On the other hand, many districts will give 

 employment (during the proper seasons of the year 

 for cutting and crushing the sugar cane) to nume- 

 rous mills, each able to make 20 tons of sugar per 

 day. At Tutu a few strange plants were found 

 among the volcanic and sedimentary rocks which 

 surround that place. 



I left Tutu late in the afternoon in a large canoe and 

 went up the Kuru-kuru river for about 8 miles ; then 

 landed and walked 7 miles to the village of Kali 



