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after all their provisions, tools, native cloth, canoes, and 
other moveables had either been carried off or destroyed, 
they had to set to work making cocoa-nut oil, sail-mats, 
and other articles for their conquerors. The intensity 
with which a Fijian hates a Tonguese need therefore 
cause no surprise. Yet there were not wanting people 
who applauded what had been done, and who were 
rather displeased to see the policy pursued by the in- 
vaders brought to such a sudden conclusion. Maafu 
knew full well that he stood in need of such friends, 
and he had set early about making them. He had 
three different bodies to interest in his conquest,—his 
own immediate followers, the foreign traders, and the 
Wesleyan missionaries. The Tonguese were easily at- 
tached to his cause by giving them unlimited license to 
rob and plunder the country, and ravish the women; the 
foreign traders he made his supporters, by running up 
heavy bills for powder, shot, and general stores, which 
stood no chance of being paid, unless it was in contri- 
butions in cocoa-nut oil, tortoiseshell, and béche-de-mer, 
extorted from the conquered places; whilst the Wes- 
leyan missionaries were kept quiet by Maafu making it 
the first condition, in arranging articles of peace, that 
the conquered should renounce heathenism and become 
Christians. The thousands of converts thus added to 
their flock, completely blinded the missionaries to the 
danger they were incurring in coquetting with so un- 
scrupulous an adventurer. It was only after Macuata 
had been reduced, and public opinion had severely con- 
demned the massacre of prisoners at Natakala and Na- 
duri by Jamisi, one of Maafu’s officers, that they saw 
