CHAPTER VIII.

Arrival at Fiji--Levuka--Ratu Joe comes on Board--Excursion to Bau in Viti Levu--We visit King Cacobau--A Native Feast--Lalis--Tapa--The Bure Kalou--Bakola--Old Fijian Atrocities--Double Canoe--Stone Adzes now becoming rare--Angona Drinking--Sir Arthur Gordon--Walk across Ovalau--The Kaicolos--An Imprudent Settler--Pine-apple Cultivation--_Periophthalmus_--Suva--Site of Future Capital--Sail towards Tonga Islands--Pelagic Animals--Early History of Tonga--Missionaries--Nukualofa--A Costly Pair of Gates--Visit to Bea--Davita--Evidence of Elevation of Island--King George of Tonga--Wellington Gnu--Curious Stone Monument--Trip to Village of Hifo--We are entertained by the Natives--Famous Caves--Eyeless Fish--Swifts behaving like Bats--Searching for Reefs--Discolouration of Sea-water--Return to Levuka--Voyage to Australia--Surface Life 159-179