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kingdom as long as his wife is alive, and his children belong 

 to the kingdom of his adoption. If, however, there are more 

 children than two, a boy, or a boy and a girl, belong to the 

 husband, and are at liberty to return to, and are in fact 

 claimed by his father's kingdom, and are the inheritors of 

 his property, while the rest are heirs of her's. When the 

 queen dies, her consort returns to his father's kingdom, but 

 he can take with him nothing from his wife's home ; every- 

 thing there belongs to her children. If he die first, his body 

 is carried to his own family burying-ground ; but I am not 

 sure by whom the death-and-burial feasts are provided. 



If the Eajah of BibipufU, for instance, have no children, 

 the people of his kingdom beg the services of a son always of 

 the Rajah of Manufahi, as their Eajah, for the payment of a 

 certain sum to his kingdom as hire. His new kingdom then 

 purchases a wife for him, if he be unmarried. Should the 

 kingdom of Manufahi lose all heirs to its throne, it may 

 demand back again the reigning Rajah of BibifUfu. If he 

 has children while Rajah of Bibifupu, or afterwards, they 

 belong to the kingdom which purchased for him his wife, 

 with the reservation just mentioned, of a boy or a boy and a 

 girl to become his heirs. If, however, the kingdom of Bibi- 

 fufu has hought and not hired merely the son of the Eajah of 

 Manufahi, he cannot be recalled on a vacancy occurring in 

 his own father's kingdom. 



In the sunny valley of Serarata, near a picturesque water- 

 fall, butterflies, chiefly of the common families of Fieridm and 

 Lycsenidm, were abundant, and formed all along the water's 

 edge quite a border of bright colour. Bird-life was far 

 scarcer than nearer the northern coast, but along the more 

 wooded flat lands by the southern shores, the natives informed 

 me that they are very plentiful. A lively little Pipit {Anihus 

 medius), with the perfect habits and call of a Wagtail, fre- 

 quented the barer grass fields in flocks, while among the 

 shrubberies a pretty Oisticola which I first took to be a wren, 

 and a black Fantail Flycatcher (Rhipidura rufiventris), flitted 

 about with the restless habit of their tribe. A bright orange 

 Fachycephala and a species of Tit {Parus timorensis), which I 

 did not obtain, were not uncommon. On the trees the white- 

 headed Fruit-pigeon (Ptilopus cinctus) sat motionless during 



