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carefully translated the import of the paper, and I at- 
testing the chief's signature. 
Whilst sitting in the little cabin of the schooner, 
Kuruduadua asked about a variety of subjects, and ge- 
nerally exclaimed, “Ah! ye white men are superior 
people. We are ignorant savages!” He was much 
pleased with that volume of Wilkes’s ‘Narrative of the 
United States Exploring Expedition’ relating to Fiji and 
Tonga. Indeed, all the natives who saw it were en- 
raptured with that beautiful publication. So faithful 
are the representations of places and persons, that the 
natives instantly recognized them. The portraits of 
Tanoa, the father of King Cakobau, and that of the 
Queen of Rewa, pleased them mightily. They always 
exclaimed, ‘“‘' They live! They can see! They speak !” 
I wish the artist had been there to hear the praise la- 
vished upon his productions. 
Kuruduadua left very late, and Danford went with 
him. Always making it a point to speak of people as 
I find them, I have nothing to say except what is in 
their favour. Both of them had been of the greatest 
service to us, and behaved well. Kuruduadua we found 
an intelligent, straightforward man, quite ready to listen 
to reason, prepared to come up to any obligations he 
had taken upon himself, and detesting all half-measures, 
all sham. Of Danford I have already spoken. He has 
been a pioneer, whose services in that direction I should 
not be inclined to undervalue, and without whom one 
of the most interesting episodes of my life would pro- 
bably not have occurred. 
We finally left the Navua river on the 5th of Sep- 
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