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CHAPTER XIV. 



VOYAGE AROUND VANUA LEVU. DEPARTURE FROM LADO. EAST COAST OF 



VITI LEVU. NANANU ISLAND. THE FIJIAN MOUNT OLYMPUS. BUA. 



NAICOBOCOBO. NUKUBATI. NADURI. INTERVIEW WITH THE CHIEF. 



DISCONTENT OF HIS SUBJECTS. BECHE-DE-MER TRADE. MUA I UDU AND 



ITS SUPERSTITIONS. NA CEVA BAY. ARRIVAL AT WAIKAVA. VISIT TO 



MY COTTON PLANTATION. MEETING AT WAIKAVA. DEPARTURE. 



OUR schooner, which had been so much shattered during 

 the stormy passage from Kadavu to Ilewa as to require 

 a thorough refitting, again left Lado on the 10th of 

 October. Mr. Pritchard had agreed to meet Colonel 

 Smythe on the 17th of that month at Waikava, a town 

 of Cakaudrove in Vanua Levu, and to bring thither all 

 the most influential chiefs of that island. We stood 

 over to the east coast of Viti Levu, and made it near 

 Tova Peak, the bold cone-shaped outline of which could 

 be seen from Lado in fine weather. The shores looked 

 charming ; grassy slopes alternating with groves of trees, 

 rivulets, and inhabited valleys. Towards 4 P.M. we an- 

 chored off Nananu Levu (erroneously called Annan in 

 the charts), close to the most northerly point of Viti 

 Levu, and near another small island bearing the name 

 of Nananu-gata. Like the adjacent coast, it is covered 

 with grass, isolated screw-pines, and ironwood, and 

 would seem well adapted for sheep and cattle. Poli- 



