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CHAPTER VII. 
ARRIVAL OF COLONEL SMYTHE FROM NEW ZEALAND.—THE ‘ PEGASUS * 
AND ‘PAUL JONES.’—VISIT TO BAU.—QUARRELSOME DISPOSITION OF 
THE CHIEF OF THE FISHERMEN.—CESSION OF FIJI TO ENGLAND.— 
FIRST OFFICIAL INTERVIEW WITH THE KING. 
‘TuE native war in New Zealand continuing and keep- 
ing all available naval force employed, Colonel Smythe 
had been unable to obtain a Government vessel to 
take him to and about Fiji, and had therefore been 
compelled to charter the ‘ Pegasus,’ an extremely slow- 
sailing, ill-manned ketch, commanded by a gossiping 
captain, who ultimately returned to New Zealand with- 
out paying even the crew, which the British Consul 
had been obliged to put on board. Mr. Pritchard and 
myself called on Colonel Smythe on the 16th of July, 
and regretted to hear of his long and stormy passage. 
He had arrived on the 5th of July, and we found him 
comfortably quartered at Levuka, in the house of Mr. 
Binner. Mrs. Smythe was making a water-colour draw- 
ing of the Levuka reef, which from Mr. Binner’s house, 
situated as it is on the top of a hill, displays itself in 
all its grandeur, and together with the little islands at 
a distance, and the shipping of the port, forms a pano- 
rama not easily matched. 
The ‘ Pegasus’ not having accommodation for more 
