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latter* s schooner, after which we made sail, by noon were clear 

 of Kia Island, and steering a course for Aneiteum." * 



Commodore Seymour's visit thus proved of material 

 benefit to Fiji, and was felt as such on all hands. " I 

 am directed by Earl Russell to request," writes Mr. 

 James Murray, of the Foreign Office, to Sir T. Rogers, 

 Bart., December 31, 1861, "that you will state to the 

 Duke of Newcastle, that his Lordship has learnt with 

 satisfaction the steps taken by Commodore Seymour for 

 terminating the wars which have been raging between 

 the Tongans and Fijians." 



* It will be seen how closely this statement agrees with the more con- 

 densed account in the ' Athenaeum ' of February 22, 1862. 



