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CHAPTER IX. 



DEPASTURE FROM KADAVU. ARRIVAL AT NAVUi. A COURT OF JUSTICE. 

 STARTING FOR THE INTERIOR. THE NAVUA RIVER. ITS FINE SCE- 

 NERY. RAPIDS. A CANOE UPSET. TOWN OF NAGADI. HOSPITABLE 



RECEPTION. SOROMATO. KIDNAPPING. FAMILY PRAYERS. HEATHEN 



TEMPLE. A LARGE SNAKE TO BE COOKED. MARCH ACROSS THE COUN- 

 TRY. VUNIWAIVUTUKU. A DIFFICULT ROAD. A PURSE LOST. NO 

 THIEVES. ARRIVAL AT NAMOSI. DANFORD's ESTABLISHMENT. HIS 

 USEFULNESS AS A PIONEER. 



LEAVING Kadavu on Saturday the 18th of August, at 

 noon, our schooner cast anchor off Navua early next 

 morning, where we were hospitably received by Kuru- 

 duadua, the chief of the district. Danford, the English- 

 man, whose history has already been told, was also there 

 to conduct us to his place of residence at Namosi, as 

 had been previously arranged. We took up our quar- 

 ters in the new Strangers' House (Buri ni so), where 

 there was ample room to hang up mosquito curtains 

 and open our luggage. There had been a quarrel be- 

 tween an Englishman and a Tonguese, both residing at 

 Taguru, in Kuruduadua's dominion. The Englishman 

 had allowed his pigs to grub the fields belonging to the 

 Tonguese, and the latter, after repeatedly remonstrating 

 without effect, had thought it advisable to enlighten the 

 Englishman by setting fire to his shed. Both parties 

 appealed to the British Consul for justice, and, with 



