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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 hoy, 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*a kingdom, and are the inheritors of 

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

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

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

 thiDg there belongs to hi.^r children. If he die first, his body 

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

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



If the Bajah of Bibi^Uf u, for instance, have no children, 

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

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

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

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

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

 demand back again the reigning Eajah of Bibifu^u. If he 

 has childxen while Rtijah of Bibifu^u, or afterwards, they 

 belong to the kingdom which purchased for him bis 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- 

 pu^n has hou(/M and not hired merely the son of the Eajah of 

 Manufahi, he cannot be recalled on a jacancy occurring in 

 his own father s kingdom. 



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

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

 Lymnidie^ 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 ver)' plentiful, A lively little Pipit {Anthn$ 

 nwdiiisjj with the perfect habits and call of a Wagttdl, fre- 

 quented the barer grass fields in flocks, while among the 

 shrubberies a pretty Cislicola which I first took to lx> a wren, 

 and a black Fantail Flycatcher (Rhipithtra rufiventris), flitted 

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

 Pachjcephala and a sj)ecies of Tit {Fm-m tinwrensis), which I 

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

 headed Fruit-pigeon (PtHopus chidm) sat motionless during 



