From our preconceived ideas of the advantages of out-breeding we should expect to find that the offspring of natives of different villages would have shown, if not the highest fecundity, at least the highest vitality, for this is the class in which the parents are not related. On the contrary, we find that the families of these unrelated people are only third in point of vitality. In view of the unfavourable position which the "relations other than concubitants" hold in this analysis, it is well to divide the group into two sub-classes. Of the fifty-five families of "relations," thirty-three are stated to be _kawa vata_ (_i.e._ of the same stock, but not necessarily of the same family or generation). The remaining twenty-two families, on the other hand, consist of such unions (incestuous from the Fijian point of view) of _vei-nganeni_ or _vei-tathini_, that is to say, brother and sister, or cousins not concubitant; _vei-vungoni_, uncle and niece, or aunt and nephew; _vei-tamani_, father and daughter, or paternal uncle and niece; and _vei-luveni_ or _vei-tinani_, maternal aunt and nephew, or mother and son. We have therefore, for purposes of identification, divided the group into--first, relations distant; second, relations specified. ----------------------+------------+---------------------------------- | | Divisions. | Number of | Children of the Marriage. | Families. +---------------------------------- | | Alive. | Dead. | Total. ----------------------+------------+-------------+---------+---------- Relations (distant) | 33 | 49 | 61 | 110 Average per family | -- | 1·48 | 1·85 | 3·33 | | | | Relations (specified) | 22 | 23 | 35 | 58 Average per family | -- | 1·05 | 1·59 | 2·64 ----------------------+------------+-------------+---------+---------- Total | 55 | 72 | 96 | 168 ----------------------+------------+-------------+---------+---------- Average per family | 1·31 | 1·75 | 3·6 ----------------------+------------+-------------+---------+---------- The fecundity of these distant relations thus appears to be much higher than that of the specified relations, and a little higher even than that of the concubitants--the highest of the four groups. The comparative figures are as follows--