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War Ceremonies and Dances at Natondre Described The Great Chief of Nambukaluku The Dances continued A Fijian Feast A Native Orator The Ceremonies concluded The Journey continued A Wonderful Fungus The bark of the rare Golden Dove leads to its Capture Return to more Civilised Parts The Author as Guest of a high Fijian Prince and Princess A souvenir of Seddon Arrival at Suva.
I left Suva with Masirewa on the morning of October 12th, and after a short sea voyage of three or four hours on a small steam launch, we arrived at the village of Navua. I had a letter to Mr. McOwan, the government commissioner for that district. He put me up for the night, and we played several games of tennis, and my stay, though short, was an exceedingly pleasant one.
Toni!" he wailed. "Toni he gone. Toni, my brother, all same come from Suva, now him dead." "I'm sorry, but it can't be helped," I said. "He should have been more careful." The native lifted himself from the deck and glanced around fearfully. Satisfied that there were no listeners he dried his eyes and crawled upon his knees to the spot where I was standing. "He not washed overboard," he whispered.
The truth was not in him, common honesty was not in him, and he was as far away from fair play and square-dealing as he was from his proper course when he nearly wrecked the Snark on the Ring- gold Isles. It was at Suva, in the Fijis, that I discharged my third and last captain and took up gain the role of amateur navigator.
Captain Wooley, the harbourmaster, gives the time to Suva, firing a gun signal at twelve, noon, three times a week. According to his chronometer mine was fifty-nine seconds fast, which is to say, that, sailing west, I should be crashing on the reef when I thought I was fifteen miles off from it.
I had a double-barrelled muzzle-loadin' shotgun, a present from Bull McGinty. Bull was all broke up at me desertin' the Dashin' Wave, but I promised to save all the Aranuka trade for him an' for nobody else, an' he stood off for Suva to get himself another mate. "At first it was great business bein' king, an' I enjoyed it.
Suva, the chief town in Fiji, and the headquarters of the government, is on this island, but very few Europeans travel far beyond the coast, and my friends in Suva declared that I would have a fit of repentance before I had travelled very far, as the interior of the island is extremely mountainous and rough.
"Soma stick one knife in him, then he tip him over. Me see him, very much afraid." "When?" I asked. "Night afore last," he gasped. "Captain see him do it. Very bad thing. Toni, my brother, all same work one time Suva." Holman joined me when I relieved the captain late in the night; I told the youngster what I knew about the disappearance of Toni. "Who knifed him?" he asked.
A detail of the immediate foreground: a mouldering ship perched high up on a reef-bench. This completes the composition, and makes the picture artistically perfect. In the afternoon we sighted Suva, the capital of the group, and threaded our way into the secluded little harbor a placid basin of brilliant blue and green water tucked snugly in among the sheltering hills.
He told me how on one occasion when he was sitting on the upper verandah of the Club Hotel in Suva with two of his servants squatting near by, the whisky he had drunk had made him feel so sleepy, that he nearly fell into the street below, but his servants dared not lay hands on him to pull him back into safety, as his body was considered sacred by his people, and they dared not touch him.
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