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a aumberof natives, — men, women, and boys, to clean 

 a cotton plantation belonging to the tribe. The plants 

 looked healthy, but thinning had been neglected when 

 they were young. The yield of cotton would also have 

 been greater if the plants had been cut down after 

 bearing the first crop. We left na Quave for Nukusari, 

 a village about half-way to Namosi. For 14 miles the 

 load Led through magnificent forests, in which there is a 

 large amount of excellent timber, such as dakua, dakua- 

 salusalu, kau-tabua, damanu, &c, I made consider- 

 able additions of rare species to my collection of plants. 

 Although our course now lay for some distance 

 alongan elevated ridge, it was so shaded by trees that, 

 with tin- exception of a magnificent view of KoroLoa, 

 a good view of the country could not be obtained. 

 K< >ro Loa is a lofty, conical shaped, rugged mountain, 

 which rises to an elevation of about 2,000 feet above 

 the sea. The land surrounding it appeared to be low 

 lying hills and valleys, but so densely covered with 

 forest that the surface could nowhere be distinctly seen. 

 The soil was everywhere rich and fertile, and the rocks 

 seen were principally basalt and agglomerate, and 

 occasionally some of a sedimentary character. Before 

 arriving at the bed of the Xavua river, the path sud- 

 denly descended the 1 ted of a stream with narrow, lofty, 

 perpendicular banks so overgrown with bamboos and 

 wild canes that no view in front could be obtained. 

 When these were pushed aside, we turned sharply 

 round a rock, and to our surprise found we were stand- 

 ing "u the edge of a river (a branch of the Navua), 

 L0 yards broad and '2\ feet deep. We forded this 

 ii three times in the short distance of 500 yards. 

 Then climbing its righl bank where it joins the Navua 

 river, we crossed a projecting point of land about 6 



