382 A MISSION TO VITI. 
apparently brought from the Sandwich Islands to Tahiti. 
The white settlers have introduced cattle, horses, goats, 
sheep, rabbits, and cats, all of which seem to thrive 
well. The horses are as yet few in number, and they 
are not much valued, as most inhabited places can be 
reached by water, and there are as yet no roads in the 
large islands. The terror of the natives at first seeing 
a horse and a man on its back seems to have been quite 
equal to that recorded of the ancient American nations; 
they ran away in wild dismay, or climbed trees and rocks 
to get out of the reach of the monster. Cattle succeed 
well; and I saw some very fine young bullocks on Ka- 
davu, the property of Mr. Boyce. Fijians not fencing in 
their plantations, they have rather a dislike to cattle, 
and in some instances they have killed them, as their 
crops have frequently suffered from their devastation. 
They are very fond of beef, and as there was no native 
name for it, they have compounded one, calling it 
“ Bulla-ma-kau,” because it is derived from a bull and a 
cow. Goats have become very numerous, and most of 
the white settlers have flocks of them for the sake of 
their milk ; but I am not aware that any of the natives 
have as yet reared any. Sheep were first introduced, 
if I am rightly informed, by Dr. Brower, the present 
American Consul, and several extensive sheep-runs have 
lately been bought on the northern shores of Viti Levu 
and Vanua Levu by British subjects from Australia. It 
was formerly supposed that the climate of Fiji was too 
warm for sheep, but that does not seem to be the case. 
Some specimens of Fijian wool were sent to the London 
Exhibition of 1862. “We find sheep answer well,” 
