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hospitality. I took a look at the garden we had planted, and found 
that many of the vegetables had already gone to seed, which the 
white man, George, had gathered; but it wanted weeding, which they 
promised me should be done, under an injunction that they would pull 
up nothing that they did not know. 
On the Observatory Point, Seru, Tanoa’s eldest son, had built an 
mbure for the accommodation of strangers, and the spot is now held 
sacred. I found he had respected the pile of stones I had left as a 
mark for the harbour. 
The Lebouni people, I was told, would occasionally complain that 
they had not been sufficiently rewarded for their services at the kitchen. 
They are a remarkably wild-looking set of fellows, and may be termed 
wild Feejee men. The wood-cut conveys a good representation of 
them. 3 
WILD FEEJEE MAN. 
An anecdote of a noted chief, proves they have some commendable 
points about them. This man is known by the whites at Ovolau by 
the name of the “ Dog of the Mountains,” he was offered a large 
reward if he would assist in killing them; but this he positively refused 
to do, or to let any of his people be engaged in so dishonest an affair, 
assigning as a reason that they had always behaved well and been 
their friends, and he would in all ways protect them. When he visits 
Levuka, since this became known to the white residents, he is treated 
with marked distinction and kindness. 
Here I again saw Paddy Connel. He complained of ill health, and 
imputed it to his being capsized in the canoe off Kamba Point, when 
proceeding to Rewa with my letters. He said he was now on his way 
to Ambatiki, to live again with his fourth wife, and his two small 
