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lished all the more from recalling to mind the long es- 

 tablished connection between cups, slips, and lips. 



After all hands had partaken of refreshment, a num- 

 ber of trees were felled in order to gain, if possible, a 

 view, the top of Buke Levu being densely wooded. No 

 sooner had this been accomplished than, to our joy, the 

 clouds which up to this time had been interposed be- 

 tween us and the region below, dispersed, disclosing a 

 great part of Kadavu and the sea. Our little schooner 

 was snugly lying at anchor, flying the British colours ; 

 but we listened in vain for the signal guns which the 

 men had been directed to fire as soon as they should 

 perceive the smoke of our fire, intensified at intervals 

 by throwing heaps of green leaves upon it. We after- 

 wards learned that it had been found impossible to dis- 

 tinguish between smoke and clouds. A large native 

 canoe, with its white triangular sail, was seen approaching 

 the shore, and the blasts of the conch shells could be 

 heard distinctly, though we were nearly 4000 feet high ; 

 otherwise there was a deep silence, only occasionally 

 broken by the dogs, which have become naturalized 

 in these wilds, as the domestic fowls have in other 

 parts of the group. The vegetation encountered was si- 

 milar to that of Voma Peak in Viti Levu ; there were 

 the same bright orange-coloured orchids (Dendrobium 

 Mohlianum, Reichb. fil.) and the epiphytical ferns, but 

 also several new species of plants. The Cinnamomum 

 furnishing a superior kind of Cassia-bark was here as 

 plentiful as in Great Fiji; a kind of Gummi Guttae 

 (Clusia sessilis, Forst.) also engaged our attention. Buke 

 Levu is evidently an extinct volcano ; and hot springs 



