“When the treacherous Nggarans had gratified their own appetites by pieces of the flesh cut off and roasted on the spot, the bodies were taken to Vakambua, who was greatly astonished, expressed much regret that such a slaughter should have grown out of his carelessness, and then shared the bodies to be eaten.” The Fijian can seldom resist meat, and that he should resist “bakolo” could not be expected of him. In Mrs. Smythe’s “Ten Months in the Fiji Islands,” an amusing instance of this predilection is recorded. “A white man had shot and carried off a pig belonging to a Fijian, who, being a convert, went to a native teacher named Obadiah, and asked him to go to the delinquent and remonstrate with him. The teacher put on his black coat, went to the man’s house, and with much earnestness pointed out to him the iniquity of the deed, asking him how he would have liked it had a Fijian killed one of his own pigs. The man listened very respectfully, and allowed the error of his ways, acknowledging that the teacher had put the matter in a new light. ‘But,’ said he ‘the pig is now dead, and we cannot bring it to life again. Shall we throw it out and let it go to waste, or, as it is just baked, and you have not breakfasted, shall we not sit down, and you will ask a blessing?’ “Obadiah, taken by surprise by Q----’s penitence, and the compliment paid to his own clerical functions, and swayed perhaps a little by the irresistible love of all Fijians for roast pork, bowed his head, and reverentially said a long prayer, after which the two set heartily to work on the pig.” When the teacher went to the missionary to report his successful labors, he was quite astonished at being charged with complicity with the thief. CHAPTER XCVI. FIJI--_Continued_. WAR AND AMUSEMENTS. WEAPONS OF THE FIJIANS -- THE SLING, AND MODE OF USING IT -- THE CLUB, AND ITS VARIOUS MODIFICATIONS -- GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLUB INTO THE PADDLE -- MODE OF MAKING THE CLUBS, AND PREPARATION OF THE TREES -- ORNAMENTS OF THE CLUBS, AND THEIR NAMES -- FIJIAN SPEARS -- THEIR TERRIBLE BARBS -- OBJECTS OF WAR -- THE REVIEW -- THE FATE OF THE BOASTER -- INGENIOUS ENGINEERING -- CRUELTY TOWARD PRISONERS -- “CONSECRATION” OF A WARRIOR, AND HIS NEW NAME -- DOMESTIC LIFE -- CEREMONIES AT BIRTH -- TRAINING IN REVENGE -- AMUSEMENTS -- VARIOUS GAMES -- RIRIKI -- WOMEN AGAINST MEN -- DANCES AND SONGS -- MARRIAGE FESTIVITIES -- WEDDING OF A CHIEF’S DAUGHTER -- DOMESTIC DISCIPLINE -- THE KING’S STAFF -- FESTIVITIES AT HOUSE BUILDING -- MODE OF THATCHING AND DECORATING THE HOUSES -- A PRACTICAL JOKE. In accordance with the plan on which this work has been arranged, Fijian warfare will be described as it was before fire-arms were introduced, and had changed the ancient style of warfare.