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son of the year, enters the river (Wai), on which, the 

 native town is situated. Tui Cakau, the King, had 

 almost promised the missionaries that on their removal 

 from Wairiki he would follow them with his whole 

 court to Waikava ; but he had not done so as yet, and 

 fears were entertained that he would not consider the 

 promise binding. Jetro, the old Manila man, whom 

 I met at Korovono, was now here, employed as a 

 Scripture-reader. Only one of the missionary houses 

 being finished, we had to sleep in the chapel, where 

 large screens of bark-cloth ensured the necessary pri- 

 vacy. Several heathen priests, on becoming Christian, 

 have proved highly useful to the mission, and at this 

 place there was one who occasionally, when praying 

 rather more fervently than most people are wont to do, 

 would suddenly begin to tremble and shake, as he used 

 to do in his heathen state, and had no slight difficulty in 

 checking himself in his old propensity. 



After the meeting the ' Pegasus ' returned to Levuka, 

 where she arrived on the 26th of October, and as there 

 was no further occasion for her, she returned to New 

 Zealand, Colonel Smythe remaining behind. The ' Paul 

 Jones' left a few hours after her the anchorage of 

 Waikava, steering for Matei in Taviuni ; the Consul 

 having determined to arrange, if possible, some terms 

 between Eitova and those who had driven him from his 

 land and estates, and thus try to heal a sore of old 

 standing. But in order to understand the real diffi- 

 culties of this case, it will be necessary to sketch the 

 history of the Tonguese in Fiji, so far as I have been 

 able to trace it from all the sources accessible. 



