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mortgage. This may be protected by a caveat entered on the 

 register, which prevents all dealing with the land to the pre- 

 judice of the holder of the equitable mortgage. The land 

 may be sold for the sum found to be due Tinder the advance 

 Avhen judgment has been obtained, but within a shorter space 

 of time than where there is no equitable mortgage. 



It will thus be seen that the European titles to land in Fiji 

 are absolutely secure, each Crown grant or Certificate of Title 

 upon transfer, which is in effect a new grant from the Crown, 

 being indefeasible, and that everything has been done which 

 experience of the systems adopted in other countries rendered 

 possible to keep the title from confusion, to make mortgages 

 secure, and to enable money advanced upon land to be at 

 command for re-payment, without the lender subjecting him- 

 self to onerous responsibilities, or the land being itself rendered 

 unsaleable and out of the circle of credit, by the title being- 

 weighted with uncleared encumbrances, from which no one 

 could derive any possible benefit. 



CHAPTER XX. 



A SAMPLE OF POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



AND now for some of my personal experience outside Polyne- 

 sia's far-famed capital. I had learned all that was to be learned 

 about exports and imports. I had interviewed the oldest in- 

 habitants and listened very attentively to all that they had to 

 say, and I started on my first cruise with the following 

 sentences ringing in my ears : ' Go and judge for yourself now 

 you know a little about it, and you will find that if British 



