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spersed park-like with clumps of forest, are character- 

 istic of this locality. The soil is fertile, and the 

 surface is not too steep for growing the sugar cane. 

 Tea and coffee would also succeed here. Agglome- 

 rate rocks abound, hut some of aqueous nature were 

 also noticed. 



After passing the village of Vosi Dam the path to 

 na Tua-tua-coko, or Fort Carnarvon, was a very rough 

 one indeed. For about 9 miles it went through in- 

 numerable beds of dalo, along irrigating water-courses, 

 and then down the rocky bed of a mountain torrent 

 to TTai Basaga, on the left bank of the Siga Toka 

 river. The forests which lie between Vosi Dam and 

 na Moali are full of the best and largest timber trees 

 that I have seen in Fiji, and a very large proportion 

 of them have reached a mature stage of growth. 

 At Vosi Dam an extensive view of the province of 

 Navosa was obtained. This is the dry part of Fiji, 

 and the chief features in the scenery are low hills 

 covered with grass and small tracts of forest in some 

 of the valleys and on a few of the mountains. We 

 forded the Siga Toka at the village of Wai Basaga, 

 and after crossing some low hills covered with grass 

 and recrossing the river, we arrived at Fort Carnarvon, 

 so called .itter the late Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies. The country passed through consisted of 

 hills with very steep sides, which had been much dis- 

 figured by land-slips. Many dalo plantations were 

 -'•,■11 i n terraces on the hill sides. The annual fires 

 cause great damage to this part of the country. 

 Iii< greater part of the land is of fair quality, but 

 it Buffers periodically from drought. Sedimentary 

 ami basaltic rocks were the most common kinds 

 erred. The houses in this part are built in a differ- 



