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the remark, that if two had been sent, one would have 

 been killed and eaten, and the other allowed to return 

 and report the fate of his comrade. Under these cir- 

 cumstances they only half-Mlled him, and sent the other 

 half of the poor man to tell a very sad tale and show 

 his wounds. A present seemed to go far towards heal- 

 ing the sores inflicted by a pine-apple club." 



Mr. Pritchard did not think it advisable to go further 

 than Nadroga, whilst Colonel Smythe proceeded to Vuda, 

 Ba, Vatia, Na Vatu, and thence to Naduri on Vanua 

 Levu, and returned to Levuka on the 22nd of Septem- 

 ber. Everywhere the chiefs acquiesced in the cession of 

 their country to England. 



It will be remembered that I was still at Namosi; 

 and I must beg the reader to return with me to that 

 place. 



