220 A MISSION TO VITI. 
Protestant Church has unhappily been split, and all 
Christians who are not Catholics never raise much ob- 
jection to forming part of a congregation, the members 
of which may more or less differ from them in minor 
points of discipline or doctrine. 
Leaving Rewa roads on the morning of the 10th of 
September, we reached Port Kinnaird, Ovalau, on the 
following day, where our little schooner was refitted, 
and we made every preparation for another, my last, 
cruise in the group. Mr. Pritchard’s work, which even 
in ordinary times was more than he could get through 
without the greatest efforts, and sitting up late or even 
whole nights, had accumulated to an alarming extent. 
The clerks he engaged proved worse than useless, though 
the pay which he could offer was three times what 
they would have got in England. After my departure 
he fortunately obtained the co-operation of Mr. Swan- 
ston as vice-consul, who, shortly after his installation in 
office, wrote me a letter,'dated Levuka, July 9, 1861, a 
passage of which I shall take the liberty to quote, as it 
gives some insight into consular duties in this group :— 
“There were urgent entreaties from missionaries and white 
residents at Rewa, and all along the coast of Viti Levu, to Mr. 
Pritchard, to visit them. Complaints from whites to windward 
against Tonga movements generally ; and Mr. Henry complains 
in particular against Maafu, and seeks consular intervention. 
All this, etc., keeps Mr. Pritchard cruising about, and the office 
drudgery falls on me, and I have more than I can attend to; 
to wit :— 
“Naval court yesterday—Seamen complain against ‘ Caro- 
line’s’ going to sea unseaworthy. Merchants and others put 
in claims against the master; he drunk and disorderly on the 
