200 A MISSION TO VITI. 



sprang up, and the two canoes, with sails set, started for 

 Rewa, where they safely arived, and the goods and other 

 property were landed and distributed as presents among 

 the people. 



" But Rokoua was not to be beaten thus. Although 

 his two canoes had been taken, there was still the one 

 captured from Ravovonicakaugawa on his second visit to 

 Naicobocobo. That was launched without delay, and 

 the fugitives pursued. Arriving at Nukuilailai, Rokoua 

 laid his spear on the deck of the canoe and walked over 

 it on shore, as he had done on a previous occasion. 

 Landed, he dropped his heavy club, thereby causing so 

 loud a noise that it woke all the people on Viti Levu. 

 This noise did not escape the quick ear of Naimilamila. 

 ' Be on your guard/ she said to her new lord, ' Rokoua 

 is coming ; I heard his club fall ; he can assume any 

 shape he pleases ; be a dog, or a pig, or a woman ; he can 

 command even solid rocks to split open and admit him, 

 so be on your guard.' Rokoua meanwhile met a young 

 girl from Nadoi on the road, carrying shrimps, landcrabs, 

 and taro to the house of the god of Rewa, and without 

 hesitation he asumed her shape, and she took his without 

 being herself aware of it. Arriving with his basket at 

 his destination, Naiogabui asked, 'Who is there V To 

 which Rokoua replied, ' It is me ; I am from Nadoi, 

 bringing food for your husband.' The supposed mes- 

 senger was asked into the house, and sitting down, he 

 imprudently assumed a position not proper to Fijian 

 women. This, and the shape of his limbs, was noticed 

 by Naiogabui, who whispered the discovery made into 

 her husband's ear. Ravovonicakaugawa stole out of the 



