136 A MISSION TO VITI. 
advanced by placing ample funds at the disposal of the 
Protestant missionaries for the christianization of the 
natives, for which the machinery as now worked by the 
Wesleyans would offer the most efficient and readiest 
means. The Catholics would probably effect the christian- 
izing part with a lesser outlay, but it must not be forgot- 
ten that one of the great advantages of Protestant mis- 
sions is, that they civilize as well as christianize, whilst 
the Catholic priests, having no home, no family life to 
exhibit for imitation, simply christianize. 
We reached Rewa, or rather Mataisuva, the mission 
station, about three o’clock in the afternoon, and were 
scarcely sheltered in safety, Colonel Smythe and his wife 
with Mr. Waterhouse, the chairman of the Fijian dis- 
trict of the Wesleyan mission, Mr. Pritchard and all the 
rest of us, with Mr. Moore, than a strong south-east- 
erly gale, accompanied a heavy rain, commenced, which 
lasted for six days. Our vessels had been ordered to 
round the south-east extremity of Viti Levu, and call 
for us. at Rewa; but this bad weather had baffled all 
their attempts, and the ‘ Paul Jones’ thought it best to 
endeavour to come through the canal, which connects 
the two branches of the great river of Viti Levu,—an 
attempt which proved quite successful. 
At Rewa, a meeting of all the chiefs and landholders 
was held, and the same proceedings gone through as 
at Bau. All expressed themselves in favour of ceding 
their country to England in the manner already detailed. 
Amongst those assembled was a son, still a boy, of 
Cakonauto, better known amongst the whites as Philips, 
a chief friendly to civilization and the whites. During 
