250 A MISSION TO VITI. 
Bua was directed to get up a quarrel at Rakiraki, the 
north-eastern district of Viti Levu, subject to Bau 
through Viwa. Everything was thus progressing favour- 
ably, and a few months more would have brought about 
the overthrow of Bau, making Maafu virtually master 
of all Fiji. At this critical moment Mr. Pritchard re- 
turned from England with intimation that her Britannic 
Majesty’s Government had taken the cession into favour- 
able consideration. Soon after his arrival, a meeting of 
Fijian chiefs took place at the British Consulate, in 
Levuka, with the view of ratifying the cession made by 
Cakobau, and they availed themselves of the opportunity 
to appeal to Mr. Pritchard to check Maafu’s grasping 
career. They founded this appeal upon the fact that 
Fiji was already ceded to the Queen of Great Britain, 
and that Maafu, as a foreigner, was taking the country 
from her. After a tedious discussion of five hours, Maafu 
consented to renounce all political claims on and in Fiji, 
and the lands conquered, by signing an instrument to 
that effect, in the presence of all the chiefs assembled, 
her Britannic Majesty’s Consul, and Commander Cam- 
pion, of her Majesty’s ship Elk.* 
“Know all men by these presents,—l. That I, Maafu, a 
Chief of and in Tonga, do hereby expressly and definitely state, 
that Iam in Fiji by the orders of George, King of Tonga, as 
his representative, and that I am here solely to manage and 
control the Tonguese in Fiji. 2. That I have, hold, exercise, 
and enjoy no position nor claim as achief of orin Fiji. 3. That 
all Tonguese claims in or to Fijiare hereby renounced. 4. That 
no Tonguese in Fiji shall exact or demand anything whatever 
* The English version of this document is here subjoined; one of the 
copies of it I brought home is now in the library of the British Museum. 
