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fine man, about twenty years of age, and more than six 
feet high, with intelligent features, and as melodious a 
voice as I ever heard. Like most of his fighting-men, 
his face was blacked with charcoal obtained from the 
Qumu-tree (Acacia Richei, A. Gray). Over his luxuriant 
head of hair he wore the sala, made of a very fine piece 
of white native cloth, and looking somewhat like a 
turban. Around his loins he wore a narrow strip of 
bark-cloth, done up in the T-bandage fashion. Arms 
and legs were decorated with bands made of the bleached 
leaves of the Voivoi, a species of screw-pine; whilst a 
boar’s tooth, nearly circular, was suspended around his 
neck. Golea, flushed with victory, gave us a rather 
circumstantial account of his recent exploits, the first 
I believe he had ever been engaged in on his own ac- 
count, and, being a young man, he made the most of 
them. His object had been to punish some district of 
Vanua Levu for having, three years ago, killed his bro- 
ther. He had taken nine towns, which he assured us 
had been a great achievement. Soon afterwards we 
heard another version of the affair, according to which 
the inhabitants, not appreciating the idea of being 
clubbed, had adopted the maxim of running away in 
order to live to fight another day. This fully accounted 
for only two killed, one an old woman, the other a child ; 
and malice, as venomous in Fiji as elsewhere, added that 
even these two had only been knocked down and would 
probably recover. We may rejoice that no more serious 
calamities attended Golea’s expeditions, which may be 
said to have closed a long line of murders. Golea’s 
father, Tui Kilakila, in February 1854, was murdered, 
