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of the Kai Tholos, the wild islanders who still hold out 
in their mountain fastnesses, the eighty inhabited isles have 
all abjured cannibalism and other frightful customs, and 
have lotued (/.^., embraced Christianity) in such good earnest 
as may well put to shame many other more civilized nations. 
" I often wish that some of the cavillers who are for ever 
sneering at Christian missions, could see something of their 
THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION, KANDAVU. 
results in these islands. But first they would have to recall 
the Fiji of ten years ago, when every man's hand was against 
his neighbour, and the land had no rest from barbarous 
inter-tribal wars, in which the foe, without respect of age or 
sex, were looked upon only in the light of so much beef ; 
the prisoners deliberately fattened for the slaughter, dead 
bodies dug up, that had been buried ten or twelve days, and 
