TONGATABU. 123 



Pikopo (that is, between the followers of Wesley, the 

 Church, and Bishop of Rome) were carried on through the 

 length and breadth of the land.' ' Fortunately things are 

 somewhat better in Eastern Polynesia, where Weteri and 

 Hahi, finding tliey cannot hunt harmoniously together, 

 have agreed to conline themselves to their separate hunt- 

 ing grounds. But now comes in Pikopo to poach on the 

 manors of botli ; and violent indignation is the necessary 

 result. The Wesleyan and Eoman Catholic missionaries are 

 especially bitter against each other. A curious illustration of 

 the kind of warfare which they carry on to one another's 

 annoyance is to be found in the account of the Eev. James 

 Calvert's missionary labours in Fiji.^ It appears that when 

 Sir J. Evorard Home, of H.M.S. ' Calliope,' visited Eewa, the 

 priest of that place wrote to him complaining of the con- 

 duct of the Wesleyan missionaries, stating, among other 

 things, that they were in the habit of exhibiting pictures 

 representing the cruelties formerly practised by those they 

 styled 'Popish persecutors.' This the gallant officer in his 

 reply admits ; but, on the other hand, he reminds the priest, 

 that lie, ' with several officers of his ship, had seen hung up 

 in the priest's houses at Tongatabu pictures representing a 

 tree, from the branches of which all who did not adhere to 



' 'Quai'terly Review' for June, 18-54. See also Dr. Tbomson's 

 ' The Story of New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 327. He .says, that at Taranaki 

 the feud between Weteri and Hahi rau so high, that the parti.sans of 

 the one set actually erected a fence and lined it thickly -with fern, 

 so that the other might not see them ! — p. 325. 



2 ' Fiji and the Fijians,' vol. ii. pp. 182, 183. 



