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CHAPTER IX. 
DEPARTURE FROM KADAVU.—ARRIVAL AT NAVUA.—A COURT OF JUSTICE. 
—STARTING FOR THE INTERIOR.—THE NAVUA RIVER.—ITS FINE SCE- 
NERY.—RAPIDS.—A CANOE UPSET.—TOWN OF NAGADI.—HOSPITABLE 
RECEPTION.—SOROMATO.—KIDNAPPING.—FAMILY PRAYERS.—HEATHEN 
TEMPLE.—A LARGE SNAKE TO BE COOKED.—MARCH ACROSS THE COUN- 
TRY.—VUNIWAIVUTUKU.—A DIFFICULT ROAD.—A PURSE LOST.—NO 
THIEVES.—ARRIVAL AT NAMOSI.—DANFORD’S ESTABLISHMENT.—HIS 
USEFULNESS AS A PIONEER. 
Leaving Kadavu on Saturday the 18th of August, at 
noon, our schooner cast anchor off Navua early next 
morning, where we were hospitably received by Kuru- 
duadua, the chief of the district. Danford, the English- 
man, whose history has already been told, was also there 
to conduct us to his place of residence at Namosi, as 
had been previously arranged. We took up our quar- 
ters in the new Strangers’ House (Buri ni sa), where 
there was ample room to hang up mosquito curtains 
and open our luggage. There had been a quarrel be- 
tween an Englishman and a Tonguese, both residing at 
Taguru, in Kuruduadua’s dominion. The Englishman 
had allowed his pigs to grub the fields belonging to the 
Tonguese, and the latter, after repeatedly remonstrating 
without effect, had thought it advisable to enlighten the 
Englishman by setting fire to his shed. Both parties 
appealed to the British Consul for justice, and, with 
