MAAFU RENOUNCING CLAIMS OF FIJI. 251 
from any Fijian, under any circumstances whatever, but they 
shall enjoy the privileges and rights accorded to other nations 
in Fiji. 5. That the lands and districts of Fiji which have 
been offered by various chiefs to me are not accepted, and are 
not mine, nor are they Tonguese, but solely and wholly Fijian. 
6. That the cession of Fiji to England is hereby acknowledged. 
In witness whereof I have hereto set my name, this 14th day 
of December, 1859. Maarv. 
“We hereby certify that the foregomg Chief Maafu signed the 
above document in our presence, this 14th day of December, 
1859.—Wiztiam T. Pritcnarp, Consul; H. Campion, Comman- 
der R.N., H.M.S. Elk. 
We hereby certify that we translated the foregoing docu- 
ment to Maafu, a Chief of Tonga, who has signed, and that he 
thoroughly understands its meaning.—W. Coiiis, Wesleyan 
Training Master; E. P. Martin, Wesleyan Mission Printer.” 
The peace of the group, which, to the serious disadvan- 
tage of trade, had been so long interrupted, was thus at 
length re-established ; but the wounds inflicted by the 
war were not so easily healed. The Tonguese did not 
content themselves with merely taking a place. They 
plundered and set fire to the dwellings, cut down the 
fruit-trees, filled up the wells, ravished the women, and 
put to death as many of the fighting-men as their fero- 
city prompted them; even those who had given them- 
selves up as prisoners were often mercilessly murdered 
in cold blood. "When Maafu and his hordes had been 
at a place, it was as if a host of locusts had descended. 
Not only had every vestige of provisions, pigs, fowls, 
yams, and taros been devoured or carried off, but the 
plantations themselves had been ruthlessly destroyed, 
forcing the poor natives to seek such wild roots as would 
enable them to eke out their miserable existence. Yet, 
