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CHAPTEE II. 



ISLAND OF TAVIUNI. THE KINO OF CAZAUDEOVE. ELEPHANTIASIS. 

 KIND OFFEE OF ME. WATEEHOUSE AND CAPTAIN WILSON. SOMOSOMO, 

 ITS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES. QUEEN ELEANOE. ASCENT OF 

 SUMMIT OF TAVIUNI. A EOYAL ESCOET. SYLVAN SCENE. AEEIVAL AT 



THE TOP. SINGULAE SWAMP OF VEGETABLE TUETLE FAT. DINNEE. 



TIMIDITY OF THE NATIVES. CHIEF GOLEA*S EETUEN FEOM A MILI- 



TAEY EXPEDITION. POLYGAMY. THE EOTUMA-MEN. WAIEIKI. AEEI- 

 VAL OF THE ' PAUL JONES.' 



THE island off which we were now anchored is properly 

 called Taviuni, erroneously Vuna by Wilkes and the 

 latest Admiralty charts. It is the third island in size 

 of the Vitian group, being about twenty-four miles long 

 and nine broad, running from south-west to north-east, 

 and being traversed by a chain of mountains about 

 two thousand feet high, the tops of which are nearly 

 always enveloped in clouds. Stately cocoa-nut palms 

 gird the beach, whilst the mountain-sides are covered 

 by dense forests full of fine timber, and abounding 

 in wild pigeons and the Kula, a species of paroquet 

 (Coriphilus solitarius, Latham), valued on account of 

 its scarlet feathers, by the Tonguese, and still more 

 by the Samoans, for ornamenting mats. Numerous 

 streams and mountain-torrents, fed principally by a lake 

 at the summit, descend in every direction and greatly 



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