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loaded us with baskets full of kavikas, or Malay-apples, 

 and cocoa-nuts, several bottles of goat's milk, and a fine 

 log of sandalwood, now in the Kew Museum. 



The houses had been stripped of most of their Eu- 

 ropean furniture, the church was rather in want of re- 

 pair, and the whole had that desolate appearance which 

 all places built by Europeans, but abandoned by them 

 to natives, invariably possess. After visiting the graves 

 of those Christian pioneers who had here laid down their 

 lives in a noble cause, I felt quite melancholy, and was 

 glad to return on board. 



Tui Bua, the chief, being absent, and not expected 

 back for some days, we made sail without delay. When 

 evening came on we anchored off Bau lailai, and next 

 morning rounded Naicobocobo ( = Naithombothombo), 

 the west point of Vanua Levu, which is rocky and thickly- 

 wooded, and supposed to be a general starting-point 

 (Cibicibi) for Bulu, the future abode of departed spirits. 

 It is erroneously called Dimba Dimba by Wilkes and 

 all those who copied him. On the 12th of October we 

 anchored off Nukubati, a sandy little island, full of 

 cocoa-nut trees and breadfruit, a great many of which 

 had been cut down or otherwise injured by the Ton- 

 guese to revenge themselves on the Chief Eitova, whose 

 private property the island is, and who had been driven 

 from power by them to make room for a chief more 

 willing to comply with their extortions than Eitova had 

 shown himself to be. I went on shore and saw a party 

 of women making pottery, which they did without a 

 wheel, and extremely well. 



On the 14th we ran down to Macuata (=Mathuata), 



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