NATIVES OF TONGATABU, FRIENDLY ISLANDS. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Wellington (New Zealand) tq Friendly and Fiji Islands, to 
the New Hebrides Group, and to Somerset, Cape Yore 
(Queensland, Australia). 
A.t Wellington — Besults of the soundings— Formation of the bottom — 
Description of the city — Australia and N ew Zealand — Leave Wel- 
lington— Squally weather — Sight the Kermadec Islands — Sounding 
and trawling — The Friendly Islands— Eoa — Tongatabu — Anchor 
off Nukalofa — Tonga — The village: its natives — Tapa : its manu- 
facture— Captain Croker’s attack on Bea, and the result— Foliage 
and' scenery — Leave Tongatabu — Passage to Fiji — Off Matuki — 
Anchor in Ngola Bay, Kandavu — Kandavu to Levuka — Anchor 
off Levuka — Eeturn to Kandavu — Natives of the New Hebrides 
