DEPARTURE OF THE ‘ PEGASUS’ FOR NEW ZEALAND. 235 
son of the year, enters the river (Wai), on which, the 
native town is situated. Tui Cakau, the King, had 
almost promised the missionaries that on their removal 
from Wairiki he would follow them with his whole 
court to Waikava; but he had not done so as yet, and 
fears were entertained that he would not consider the 
promise binding. Jetro, the old Manila man, whom 
I met at Korovono, was now here, employed as a 
Scripture-reader. Only one of the missionary houses 
being finished, we had to sleep in the chapel, where 
large screens of bark-cloth ensured the necessary pri- 
vacy. Several heathen priests, on becoming Christian, 
have proved highly useful to the mission, and at this 
place there was one who occasionally, when praying 
rather more fervently than most people are wont to do, 
would suddenly begin to tremble and shake, as he used 
to do in his heathen state, and had no slight difficulty in 
checking himself in his old propensity. 
After the meeting the ‘ Pegasus’ returned to Levuka, 
where she arrived on the 26th of October, and as there 
was no further occasion for her, she returned to New 
Zealand, Colonel Smythe remaining behind. The‘ Paul 
Jones’ left a few hours after her the anchorage of 
Waikava, steering for Matei in Taviuni; the Consul 
having determined to arrange, if possible, some terms 
between Ritova and those who had driven him from his 
land and estates, and thus try to heal a sore of old 
standing. But in order to understand the real diffi- 
culties of this case, it will be necessary to sketch the 
history of the Tonguese in Fiji, so far as I have been 
able to trace it from all the sources accessible. 
