184 A MISSION TO VITI. 
then alive, would never have agreed to it; but our visit 
happened just at the right time in order to crown our 
endeavours with success. 
When in August we saw the cauldron again, it was 
quite rusty, and had evidently not been used. Weeds. 
were growing around it, and a creeper was trying to 
cover by its foliage this remnant of past errors and 
crimes. Kuruduadua had evidently kept the promise 
made us, caused presents of human flesh sent to him 
to be buried, and given strict orders that even in the 
fight impending the bodies of the slain enemies should 
be left to be buried by their friends, and on no consi- 
deration be removed by his own people. 
Batinisavu, who succeeded the cannibal Naulumatua as 
governor of Namosi, belonged to the party always op- 
posed to anthropophagism. He was quite a young man; 
had, according to all accounts, never tasted human flesh ; 
and there is every reason to believe, great friends as he 
was with Danford, that as long as he holds the post no 
bokola will be seen at Namosi. The widows of the late 
governor paid me repeated visits, and said there would 
be no more cannibalism at Namosi, since Kuruduadua’s 
orders were very strict. Soromato, the young chief who 
had attached himself to me, asked Danford one day 
whether he remembered a conversation they had years. 
ago, when he was a very young boy, and in which he 
told him of a vow he had made never to kill a woman. 
when able to wield a club, or eat human flesh, when old 
enough to do so. Danford said he well remembered it, 
as it struck him as very singular that a mere child should 
feel so strongly on these subjects as to make a solemn 
