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Kuruduadua’s approval, the case was gone into as it 
would before any magistrate in England, witnesses being 
called to establish the truth of the various statements 
advanced. The result was, that the Englishman was told 
that, according to Fijian customs, the pigs, not the fields, 
were fenced in, and that he had no right to allow his 
animals to destroy neighbours’ property; whilst his 
neighbour, for taking the law in his own hand, was 
ordered to erect, in a specified number of days, a new 
shed, in every way equal to the one destroyed. Kuru- 
duadua was highly pleased with the way in which the 
whole had been managed ; and though it was late when 
the case was decided, he sent for several of the leading 
men to give them an account of it, and they sat up the 
greater part of the night discussing the fairness of the 
proceedings. 
Having made arrangements with Kuruduadua for 
proceeding into the interior on our previous visit, we 
were able to start on the morning of the 21st of Au- 
gust. The travelling party consisted of Colonel Smythe, 
Mr. Pritchard, the Rev. J. Waterhouse, Danford, Chief 
Kuruduadua, and a host of followers, all embarked in 
canoes. The weather, which, during the previous week, 
had been rainy, became very fine at starting. The boat 
in which Mr. Pritchard, Danford, and myself were 
seated, was always ahead, and all attempts made by the 
others to beat us proved failures. At one time we had 
a most exciting race, the rival canoes putting forth all 
their strength, but to no avail: we kept ahead in spite 
of all their efforts. 
Danford and the natives were quite in their element, 
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