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Wesleyan training-master, also owns large tracts and a 
great many small islands. The land is paid for in 
barter, cotton prints, cutlery, muskets, powder and shot. 
Parties desirous of establishing plantations will have no 
difficulty in obtaining any amount of good land near 
rivers or the sea. Labour can be had to some extent in 
Fiji, but Polynesians will work much better if they are 
not in their own islands; and hands might be had by 
running over to Rotuma, Fotuna, Were, Raratonga, and 
the New Hebrides; indeed some of the best working 
men and women I saw in Fiji were obtained from those 
sources. 
On the 2nd of November we returned to Lado, from 
our voyage around Vanua Levu. We had left Nuku- 
bati on the 30th of October, and called at Solevu and 
Levuka. On the 7th of November the ‘Staghound,’ 
Captain Sustenance, arrived from Tahiti and Samoa, 
and, as I had seen as much of Fiji as was accessible 
and gathered all the information I had been directed 
to accumulate, I engaged a passage in her for Sydney. 
There were several passengers on board; two having 
come from Tonga, where they had established sheep- 
runs; and one had been over a great part of Fiji, to 
judge for himself about the capabilities of the group for 
colonization. From what I could gather from conversa- 
tion, he had been sent out by a party of friends, all of 
whom were desirous of investing capital in the islands 
if his report should prove favourable. He spoke in 
high terms of the country, and its resources. 
T left Levuka on the 16th of November, and two days 
after lost sight of Kadavu and the Fiji group. On the 
