Bureta there is a considerable tract of fine flat land 

 well adapted for sugar cane cultivation. From Bureta 

 I crossed to Moturiki, a small island with an area of 

 8 square miles of fine land, which is well suited for the 

 growth of cocoa-nuts. Prom Moturiki I visited Viti 

 Levu and entered the Tlewa river by its eastern mouth, 

 and went up to na Koro Vatu, about 65 or 70 miles 

 from the sea. I was everywhere delightfully sur- 

 prised with the fertility of the land, the size of the 

 river, the fine scenery, and the luxuriance of the 

 cultivated sugar canes, which, to a small but increasing 

 extent, are grown by a few settlers on the alluvial 

 flats bordering the river. All the kinds of sugar canes, 

 their healthiness, their capability of resisting drought, 

 and of "ratooning" after cutting, as well as the 

 quantity of sugar and weight of cane per acre which 

 each kind yielded, were subjects of earnest inquiry ; 

 as on the eve of my departure from Mauritius for the 

 South Seas, I was instructed by the Government of 

 that colony, at the request of the planters, to collect 

 and despatch thither all the different varieties I 

 could obtain, together with useful information re- 

 specting the peculiarities of each kind. In Fiji alone 

 I obtained over twenty different kinds, samples of 

 which were sent to Mauritius in 16 wardian cases. 

 On the banks of the Hewa and its affluent streams, 

 including the deltas formed by its several mouths, 

 there are about 400 square miles of land unrivalled in 

 quality, and especially well adapted for growing cane. 

 Most of this land has deep water frontage. A large 

 proportion of it belongs to settlers, some of whom 

 cultivate sugar canes, and others do not because they 

 cannot get their canes crushed, the sugar mills being 

 either insufficient or at too great a distance. T also 



