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CHAPTER XIII. 



DEPARTURE FROM NAMOSI. VUNIWAIVUTUKA. THE " VELI." MODE OF 

 TATOOING THE MOUTH. PASSING DOWN THE NAVUA RIVER. NAGADI 

 CLEARED OUT BY ITS VASU. OUR CANOE CAPSIZED. RETURN TO THE 

 ' PAUL JONES.' KURUDUADUA'S CHARACTER. LEAVING NAVUA. BEGA. 

 MR. STORCK'S ILLNESS. RETURN TO KADAVU. ASCENT OF BUKE 

 LEVU. REWA. IMMIGRANTS FROM NEW ZEALAND. MR. MOOliE's 

 POWERFUL SERMON. ARRIVAL AT LADO. OFFICE DRUDGERY. 



WHEN, on the 2nd of September, I left Namosi, there 

 were great lamentations. The women and children 

 cried bitterly, and Batinisavu, the Governor of the 

 place, with several young chiefs, made up their minds 

 to see me safe to the coast. I had witnessed a similar 

 scene after the departure of Colonel Smythe and Mr. 

 Pritchard, and heard chiefs and people regret that they 

 were gone, and would probably never come again. I 

 had been amongst them much longer, and they had got 

 used, and, in some instances, quite attached to me. Can- 

 nibals though they be, they have many good qualities ; 

 and some of the greatest crimes laid to their door may 

 be explained, as singular, though mistaken demonstra- 

 tions of a deep natural aifection. 



We took the same road as that by which Mr. Prit- 

 chard and his party had returned, and in the afternoon 

 reached Vuniwaivutuka, where we made preparations 



