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thought it advisable to give himself up, and for some 
time he was a prisoner under the immediate eye of the 
victorious chief. But Maafu’s followers were most un- 
willing to see this promise kept; they pressed him hard 
to get rid of a man at once so bold and so dangerous. 
Maafu, on one side assailed by his unruly mob, on the 
other bound by a promise which he deemed it prudent 
not to treat lightly, solved the dilemma by allowing Ri- 
tova to escape to Cakaudrove, and in order to blind his 
vassals and allies, he pretended to be enraged at his es- 
cape, and dispatched men in pursuit of the fugitive. 
Maafu now proceeded to dispose of the conquered 
territories. Solevu was annexed to Tui Bua’s dominion ; 
the western part of Macuata was placed under Bete, 
the eastern under Bonaveidogo, with the express under- 
standing that each of the favoured parties had to pay a 
stipulated tribute. In this distribution, the claims of 
Bau on Solevu had been altogether disregarded. If any- 
thing had been wanting to open the eyes of Cakobau, it 
was furnished by these high-handed proceedings, which 
sounded like scorn to a proud people, who had been led 
to believe that whatever was done in this war would 
tend towards extending and consolidating the autho- 
rity of the supreme power in Fiji. More humiliation 
was in store for Bau. In order to avoid as long as pos- 
sible a direct contest with that state, Maafu retired to 
Lomolomo to direct his operations. Bau was to be got 
between two fires. A strong fleet of canoes was dis- 
patched to Bega, an island, through Rewa, subject to 
Bau, and which, overawed by the superior force suddenly 
appearing, gave itself up to the Tonguese; whilst Tui 
