172 A MISSION TO VITI. 
the remark, that if two had been sent, one would have 
been killed and eaten, and the other allowed to return 
and report the fate of his comrade. Under these cir- 
cumstances they only half-killed him, and sent the other 
half of the poor man to tell a very sad tale and show 
his wounds. A present seemed to go far towards heal- 
ing the sores inflicted by a pine-apple club.” 
Mr. Pritchard did not think it advisable to go further 
than Nadroga, whilst Colonel Smythe proceeded to Vuda, 
Ba, Vatia, Na Vatu, and thence to Naduri on Vanua 
Levu, and returned to Levuka on the 22nd of Septem- 
ber. Everywhere the chiefs acquiesced in the cession of 
their country to England. 
It will be remembered that I was still at Namosi; 
and I must beg the reader to return with me to that 
place. 
