IV. 
Religion of Fiji. 
The religion of Fiji consisted mainly of superstitious 
legends, witchcraft, and divination, together with a firm 
belief in certain deities. They did not make to themselves 
idols, in the accepted sense of the term; they were not 
idol-worshippers, as were some of the Asiatic races, but at 
the same time they recognised the existence of some 
supernatural Power, or Powers, which controlled, and 
influenced all upon the earth. Still they never attempted 
to make any representations of this Power : they never 
worshipped the heavenly bodies, or any of the objects of 
nature by which they were surrounded ; and when afraid of 
certain stones, trees, mountains, or relics, the awe had in it, 
more of superstition, than actual worship. 
Their highest idea of divinity was expressed by the native 
word Kalou, and this word might mean anything, either 
very good, or very bad. The gods of the other islands of 
the South Seas were unknown to the Fijians, who seemed 
to have adopted a form of idolatry peculiar to themselves, 
— or rather of god-worship, — for, as we before said, they 
made no idols. Among the names of their gods, or, in- 
visible spirits, are to be found Thangawahi, a giant ; Roko- 
Bati-Ndua^ the one-toothed god ; Lingakua, the wooden- 
