CHAPTER II.

GOVERNMENT--HEAD-HUNTING--SLAVERY--CANNIBALISM.

Hereditary Chieftainship--St. Christoval--Coast Tribes and Bush Tribes--Their unceasing Hostility--Head-Hunting and Head-Money-- Greater Power of the Chiefs of Bougainville Straits--Gorai, the Shortland Chief--How the Treasury Islanders became our Friends--Fauro and its Chief--Choiseul Bay--In the calmest Seas there are occasional Storms--A Tragedy, in several Acts--Hostilities between Alu and Treasury--_Væ Feminis!_--Tambu Ban--Slavery, an easy Servitude if it were not for one grave Contingency--A Purveyor of Human Flesh-- Cannibalism--A _Béa_--Fattening for the Market pp. 13-40