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Kuruduadua's approval, the case was gone into as it 

 would before any magistrate in England, witnesses being 

 called to establish the truth of the various statements 

 advanced. The result was, that the Englishman was told 

 that, according to Fijian customs, the pigs, not the fields, 

 were fenced in, and that he had no right to allow his 

 animals to destroy neighbours' property; whilst his 

 neighbour, for taking the law in his own hand, was 

 ordered to erect, in a specified number of days, a new 

 shed, in every way equal to the one destroyed. Kuru- 

 duadua w r as highly pleased with the way in which the 

 whole had been managed ; and though it was late when 

 the case was decided, he sent for several of the leading 

 men to give them an account of it, and they sat up the 

 greater part of the night discussing the fairness of the 

 proceedings. 



Having made arrangements with Kuruduadua for 

 proceeding into the interior on our previous visit, we 

 were able to start on the morning of the 21st of Au- 

 gust. The travelling party consisted of Colonel Smythe, 

 Mr. Pritchard, the Rev. J. Waterhouse, Danford, Chief 

 Kuruduadua, and a host of followers, all embarked in 

 canoes. The weather, which, during the previous week, 

 had been rainy, became very fine at starting. The boat 

 in wilich Mr. Pritchard, Danford, and myself W 7 ere 

 seated, was always ahead, and all attempts made by the 

 others to beat us proved failures. At one time we had 

 a most exciting race, the rival canoes putting forth all 

 their strength, but to no avail : we kept ahead in spite 

 of all their efforts. 



Danford and the natives were quite in their element, 



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