136 A MISSION TO VITI. 



advanced by placing ample funds at the disposal of the 

 Protestant missionaries for the christianization of the 

 natives, for which the machinery as now worked by the 

 Wesleyans would offer the most efficient and readiest 

 means. The Catholics would probably effect the christian- 

 izing part with a lesser outlay, but it must not be forgot- 

 ten that one of the great advantages of Protestant mis- 

 sions is, that they civilize as well as christianize, whilst 

 the Catholic priests, having no home, no family life to 

 exhibit for imitation, simply christianize. 



We reached Rewa, or rather Mataisuva, the mission 

 station, about three o'clock in the afternoon, and were 

 scarcely sheltered in safety, Colonel Smythe and his wife 

 with Mr. Waterhouse, the chairman of the Fijian dis- 

 trict of the Wesleyan mission, Mr. Pritchard and all the 

 rest of us, with Mr. Moore, than a strong south-east- 

 erly gale, accompanied a heavy rain, commenced, which 

 lasted for six days. Our vessels had been ordered to 

 round the south-east extremity of Viti Levu, and call 

 for us at Rewa ; but this bad weather had baffled all 

 their attempts, and the ' Paul Jones ' thought it best to 

 endeavour to come through the canal, which connects 

 the two branches of the great river of Viti Levu, an 

 attempt which proved quite successful. 



At Rewa, a meeting of all the chiefs and landholders 

 was held, and the same proceedings gone through as 

 at Bau. All expressed themselves in favour of ceding 

 their country to England in the manner already detailed. 

 Amongst those assembled was a son, still a boy, of 

 Cakonauto, better known amongst the whites as Philips, 

 a chief friendly to civilization and the whites. During 



