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enacted, when the legs of this bowl Avere seen steeped in 

 human blood. 



Happily these scenes have now passed away, a brighter 

 day has dawned upon the land, and Thakumbau, once the 

 terror of liis countrymen, has now become a professing 

 Christian, and it is to be hoped that ' the lion and the lamb ' 

 may ' lie down together.' 



'THE GREAT KAVA RO^VT- OF FIJI.* 



We had no time to go and see the principal town of Mbau, 

 wliich is said to be very dirty.^ We could see a small fort 



' Speaking of tlie open place at Mbau, where all the ordure of the 

 sacred city was deposited (Erskine, p. 191), remarks that it was the 

 only occasion on which he saw anything of the kind ; the natives 

 being scrupulously delicate in this respect. The explanation of this 

 exceptioa was the confined limits of the city, and the inaccessibility 

 of the beach. 



