32 A MISSION TO VITI. 
by the hands of, or, as some assert, at the instigation of, 
his own son, who then succeeded him to the throne of 
Cakaudrove. A second brother, to avenge his father’s 
foul murder, committed fratricide, and was in his turn 
assassinated by the people whom Golea had just re- 
turned from punishing. 
Golea, on my asking him when he would follow his 
eldest brother in embracing Christianity, replied that 
his religion was fighting, and that he did not as yet 
think of becoming a disciple of the new faith. One of 
his great objections seemed to be its allowing him only 
one wife, whilst now he had an extensive harem, to 
which he continually made new additions. The Wes- 
leyans have invariably refused to admit as members of 
their society, any professed native Christians who would 
not give up polygamy. Of course, among Protestants, 
any sect is at perfect liberty to adhere to whatever rules 
and regulations it may think fit to impose upon itself, 
and no words should be lost upon the discussion of it 
by laymen. But when taking a common-sense view of 
the case, whether polygamists on becoming Christians 
should put all save one wife away, it assumes a differ- 
ent aspect, which the Bishop of Natal has done good 
service in ventilating. To say that discarded wives of 
a polygamist may find husbands argues nothing ; so may 
fallen women of our own country. According to the ler 
loci, the wives enjoy a legitimate existence before the 
general adoption of Christianity. By declaring them il- 
legitimate, a serious wrong is inflicted upon them. And 
why do evil that good may come? These women, sud- 
denly deprived of the consciousness that they are legiti- 
