Christmas in Great Fiji—Pig feasts—Weddings—Fijian names—Cannibal dainties—Christmas chimes—Sneezing—“Our Father” in Fijian, 96 CHAPTER XII. Quite alone in a mountain village—Return to Rewa—Basaltic pillars—Rewa pottery—Bau—New Year’s eve—King Thakombau as an elder of the Wesleyan Church—Pre-Christian times, 107 CHAPTER XIII. A strange volcanic isle—Joeli Mbulu, a Tongan apostle—The conversion of the people of Ono—Thakombau’s canoe—A royal gardener—A small hurricane—Early prayers—Breakfast on Thangalei—Between the breakers—At home at Nasova, 121 CHAPTER XIV. Life at Nasova—Farmyard—Convict thatchers—Native festival at Bau—Return to Nasova—Battles with crabs—Beginning of cannibal disturbance—Fijian fairies—A storm, 134 CHAPTER XV. Government House—Pets—Curios—Crabs—Native police—Death of Mrs de Ricci, 147 CHAPTER XVI. Good Friday in Fiji—Isle Koro—Planters’ Houses—Labour—Making native cloth—Great feasts—Weddings—Salaries of Wesleyan missionaries and teachers, 156 CHAPTER XVII. Isle Ngau—Mud-crabs—Albinos—Bathing in the tropics—An earnest congregation—A typical village—Fijian students—The burnt waters—A narrow escape—Wreck of the Fitzroy, 173 CHAPTER XVIII. Taviuni—Tui Thakow—Missionary perils—Their fruit of peace—Ratu Lala—Rambi Isle—Gipsy life—Vanua Levu—A mission conference—The isle of Kia—A village feast, 191 CHAPTER XIX. The Chief of Mbua—Feudal rights—A night in a miserable village—Church _à la_ St Columba—Night on a desert isle—Savu Savu—Boiling springs—Their use—Past and future, 211 CHAPTER XX. Nasova—The mountain war—A year’s progress—Fijian homage, 219 CHAPTER XXI. A planter’s house—Angora goats—A lovely shore—Sericulture—The mosquito plague, 235 CHAPTER XXII. The pottery districts of Viti Levu—A cannibal’s register—A night in a corn-shed—Funeral of Ratu Taivita, 243 CHAPTER XXIII. Start for New Zealand—Extinct volcanoes—Sir George Grey’s treasures—Tree-kangaroos, 260 CHAPTER XXIV.