Gold-mines—A new city—Native defences—Kauri forest—A hard ride—Kati Kati—Tauranga Gate Pah, and cemetery—Ohinemutu—A volcanic region, 272 CHAPTER XXV. Bewildering new surroundings—The Maori dragon—Breakfast at Wairoa—The mission-house—The hot lake—White terraces—Sulphur and mud volcanoes—An unjust claim resisted—Champions from the Antipodes, 290 CHAPTER XXVI. Fijian rivers—Samoan envoys—Death of a true apostle—A revival—Making a race-course—Mission to New Britain, 307 CHAPTER XXVII. Various plantations—Crotons—Foreign labour—Green beetles—Loma Loma—A Tongan colony—Hot springs, 328 CHAPTER XXVIII. Notes on Fijian folk-lore—Legend of the rat and cuttle-fish: the crane and the crab: essay of roast-pig: of gigantic birds—Serpents worshipped as incarnate gods—Sacred stones worshipped—Mythology and witchcraft, 345 APPENDIX, 356 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE OUR HOME IN FIJI, _Frontispiece_ ISLES OF OVALAU, MOTURIKI, BAU, AND VIWA. FROM VITI LEVU, 111 HOT SPRINGS, ISLE NGAU, 180 A CHIEF’S KITCHEN, 208 MAP, _At the end_ NOTE.—CANNIBAL FORK. The Cannibal Fork represented on the binding of this book is a facsimile of a fair average specimen. Some of the chiefs had forks eighteen inches long, of dark polished wood, with handles richly carved. * * * * * With reference to the vegetables specially reserved for cannibal feasts, Dr Seemann describes the Boro dina (_Solanum anthropophagorum_) as a bushy shrub, seldom higher than six feet, with a dark glossy foliage, and berries of the shape and colour of tomatoes. This fruit has a faint aromatic smell, and is occasionally prepared like tomato-sauce. The leaves of this plant, and also of two middle-sized trees (the Mala wathi, _Trophis anthropophagorum_, and the Tudano, _Omalanthus pedicellatus_), were wrapped round the _bokola_ and baked with it on heated stones. AT HOME IN FIJI. INTRODUCTION.