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CHAPTER XIV. 
VOYAGE AROUND VANUA LEVU.—DEPARTURE FROM LADO.—EAST COAST OF 
VITI LEVU.—NANANU ISLAND.—THE FIJIAN MOUNT OLYMPUS.—BUA.— 
NAICOBOCOBO.—NUKUBATI.—NADURI.—INTERVIEW WITH THE CHIEF.— 
DISCONTENT OF HIS SUBJECTS.—BECHE-DE-MER TRADE.—MUA I UDU AND 
ITS SUPERSTITIONS.—NA CEVA BAY.—ARRIVAL AT WAIKAVA.—VISIT TO 
MY COTTON PLANTATION.—MEETING AT WAIKAVA.—DEPARTURE. 
Our schooner, which had been so much shattered during 
the stormy passage from Kadavu to Rewa as to require 
a thorough refitting, again left Lado on the 10th of 
October. Mr. Pritchard had agreed to meet Colonel 
Smythe on the 17th of that month at Waikava, a town 
of Cakaudrove in Vanua Levu, and to bring thither all 
the most influential chiefs of that island. We stood 
over to the east coast of Viti Levu, and made it near 
Tova Peak, the bold cone-shaped outline of which could 
be seen from Lado in fine weather. The shores looked 
charming ; grassy slopes alternating with groves of trees, 
rivulets, and inhabited valleys. ‘Towards 4 P.M. we an- 
chored off Nananu Levu (erroneously called Annan in 
the charts), close to the most northerly point of Viti 
Levu, and near another small island bearing the name 
of Nananu-gata. Like the adjacent coast, it is covered 
with grass, isolated screw-pines, and ironwood, and 
would seem well adapted for sheep and cattle. Poli- 
