308 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



When the John Wesley returned from Navigator's Islands, 

 we sailed for Tonga, where I was again heartily welcomed by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Davis, and I made more addition to my Algae both 

 there and at Lifuka, which I again visited before going to the 

 Fijis. At Tonga I met with a very remarkable star-fish of 

 the pentagonal type, as large and as thick as a 4 lb. loaf of 

 bread, but it has greatly shrunk in the drying, and is now quite 

 flat and only an inch in thickness. Three others I have cut open 

 and skinned, and have their skins and skeletons. In the stomach 

 of each was a fish some inches long. How such a sluggard could 

 persuade a lively and sensible fish to walk into his stomach is 

 to me a mystery. I have two new genera of Algae, and at the 

 least three well-marked species of one of them. 



On the 8th of October we started from Vavau on our voyage 

 to the Fiji archipelago, and towards evening we sailed close 

 by the island of Loti, now a volcano in fierce activity, though a 

 little more than a year ago it had been considered by the natives 

 from time immemorial to be a quiet, well-behaved island. It is, 

 as is usual, conical, and in some places broad streams of lava 

 rock stretch from the summit to the sea ; while other parts 

 where the fire had not reached were still green with the 

 luxuriant foliage of the tropics. The natives report that since 

 the volcano broke out, a large fresh-water lake has been formed 

 where previously there was none such, nor were there either 

 streams or fountaii s. 



Our voyage though slow was pleasant and favourable. We 

 reached our first stopping place, Lakemba, at daylight on the 

 13th, where we lay off and on during our stay, the shore being 

 reef-bound and the waters outside the reef too deep to afford 

 anchorage. The island is mountainous and very beautiful. I 

 landed at the mission station and started for a walk, continuing 

 my way over the tops of several hills till I came to a gully, 

 wherein was a stream shaded over with shrubs and tree-ferns. 

 I scrambled down and gathered sundry matters on its banks. 

 The vegetation was very different from that of the Friendly 

 Islands, being also more diversified, and to me more interesting. 

 The decomposed volcanic matter, richly manured with the 

 vsgetable detritions of ages, forms a soil of exuberant fertility, 

 which is also sunned, fanned, and well watered. The same may 

 be said of all the other Fiji islands that I visited. They are 



