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after all their provisions, tools, native cloth, canoes, and 

 other moveables had either been carried off or destroyed, 

 they had to set to work making cocoa-nut oil, sail-mats, 

 and other articles for their conquerors. The intensity 

 with which a Fijian hates a Tonguese need therefore 

 cause no surprise. Yet there were not wanting people 

 who applauded what had been done, and who were 

 rather displeased to see the policy pursued by the in- 

 vaders brought to such a sudden conclusion. Maafu 

 knew full well that he stood in need of such friends, 

 and he had set early about making them. He had 

 three different bodies to interest in his conquest, his 

 own immediate followers, the foreign traders, and the 

 Wesleyan missionaries. The Tonguese were easily at- 

 tached to his cause by giving them unlimited license to 

 rob and plunder the country, and ravish the women ; the 

 foreign traders he made his supporters, by running up 

 heavy bills for powder, shot, arid general stores, which 

 stood no chance of being paid, unless it was in contri- 

 butions in cocoa-nut oil, tortoiseshell, and beche-de~mer, 

 extorted from the conquered places ; whilst the Wes- 

 leyan missionaries were kept quiet by Maafu making it 

 the first condition, in arranging articles of peace, that 

 the conquered should renounce heathenism and become 

 Christians. The thousands of converts thus added to 

 their flock, completely blinded the missionaries to the 

 danger they were incurring in coquetting with so un- 

 scrupulous an adventurer. It was only after Macuata 

 had been reduced, and public opinion had severely con- 

 demned the massacre of prisoners at Natakala and Na- 

 duri by Jamisi, one of Maafu's officers, that they saw 



