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order. To my great joy, there were ripe pods, and I 
could gather the produce of the very seeds only set 
three months ago. Mr. Coxon was glad to see me again, 
and availed himself of my invitation to go for a few days 
to Cakaudrove, as the eastern extremity of Vanua Leve 
is more particularly called. 
Shortly after my arrival, Ritova, the deposed chief of 
Macuata, called on me. I told him to leave off black- 
ing his face, as it set foreigners against him, and was 
regarded as a demonstration of heathenism, though it 
might not be intended as such. Golea, or rather Ratu 
Golea, the chief of Somosomo, also dropped in. He had 
cut his hair short, and was so much altered for the 
worse, that I did not know him until recognizing him 
by his melodious voice. He had now about thirty 
wives; and Eleanor, the Queen, had quite recently given 
birth to a fine boy, who would be “ Vasu” to Bau, and 
about whom the natives were in ecstasy. 
The Fijians are not so prepossessing in appearance 
as those lazy and handsome fellows the Tonga men, who 
flock over here in great shoals; but whilst the Ton- 
guese lose, the Fijians gain by a closer acquaintance. 
There is a manliness about them that is extremely win- 
ning; and I quite agree with Macdonald, that if their 
likenesses could be accurately taken, they would form 
quite a contrast to the ill representations of these islan- 
ders extant. Ratu Vakaruru, whose portrait is given 
in the frontispiece, is one of the finest Fijians living ; 
but I cannot say that the copy I had made of Mac- 
donald’s unpublished drawing does justice to him. 
Their language, so far as euphony goes, yields to none 
I have heard in any quarter of the globe, and to my ear 
