CHAPTER IV. 
DEPARTURE FROM SOMOSOMO.—ISLAND OF WAKAYA.—THE BALOLO.—ARRI- 
VAL AT LEVUKA.—H.B.M. CONSUL.—THE LATE MR. WILLIAMS.—LADO 
AND ITS ORIGIN.—SITE FOR THE NEW CAPITAL.—THE KING OF FIJI.— 
BAU.—CAUSES OF ITS SUPREMACY.—VIWA. 
Tue ‘ Paul Jones’ had been seven days on her voyage 
from Port Kinnaird to Somosomo, having had to beat up, 
but in going back she had a fair though not a very 
strong wind. We left Somosomo in the afternoon of the 
20th of June, and called at Wairiki to wish good-bye to 
the missionaries, and return them several articles they 
had kindly lent us. The first night we anchored in a 
small bay on the southern coast of Vanua Levu, and 
went on shore the next morning to botanize. The town, 
built near a great swamp, consists of about forty houses. 
We had scarcely shown our white faces in the first 
house when all the little children set up a perfect 
scream, and nothing their parents said or did could pa- 
cify them. If they had seen the “old gentleman” him- 
self in propria persond, they could not have been more 
frightened. The piercing screams brought children of 
all the other houses out, till the whole formed one 
great yelling chorus, so terribly grating on our ears that 
we made all possible haste to escape into the woods. Our 
