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number of retainers present, and shortly after his entrance a man was 

 aroused from his mat, who said he wished his likeness taken. His 

 head was dressed in the most elaborate and extravagant fashion of 

 Rewa, and from the number of his retainers he appeared to be a high 

 chief. A day or two after he proved to be the notorious Vendovi, 

 brother to the king, and the person whom we desired to capture. He 

 had his face smeared with oil and lamp-black. 



From his head-dress our gentlemen recognised him as the indi- 

 vidual who had been their guide in one of the short excursions they 

 had made in the neighbourhood, and with whom they had been so 

 much pleased when they offered him a reward for his services. 



Mr. Agate also obtained good likenesses of the king and queen. 



Whilst he was employed in sketching these, he witnessed the 

 delivery of their tribute by the people of Kantavu. When the 

 king was seated in state, with his principal officers around him, the 

 chiefs of Kantavu appeared, each encircled with many folds of tapa 

 and mats. After leaving their clubs, &c, near the door, they entered, 

 crouching upon their hands and feet, and thus passed round the 

 semicircle to their appointed places. Their chief continued to pro- 

 ceed towards the king, and when near, presented his majesty with a 

 whale's tooth, neatly slung in the manner of a powder-horn. The king, 

 on receiving it, answered " Endina." The chief then retired, and 

 was followed by another, who, after disburdening himself of the tapa 

 in which he was enveloped, gave place to another, and so on to the 

 last. Each offering was acknowledged by the king in the same tone 



