Journey into the Interior of Great Fiji - A Guide Secured - The Start
- Arrival at Navua - Extraction of Sago - Grandeur of Scenery -
A Man covered with Monkey-like Hair - A Strangely Coloured Parrot
- Wild Lemon and Shaddock Trees - A Tropical "Yosemite Valley" -
Handclapping as a Native Form of Salute - Beauty of Namosi - The
Visitor inspected by ex-Cannibals - Reversion to Cannibalism only
prevented by fear of the Government - A Man who would like to Eat my
Parrot "and the White Man too" - The Scene of Former Cannibal Feasts
- Revolting Accounts of Cannibalism as Formerly Practised - Sporadic
Cases in Recent Years - An Instance of Unconscious Cannibalism by a
White - Reception at Villages EN ROUTE - Masirewa Upset - Descent
of Rapids - Dramatic Arrival at Natondre ("Fallen from the Skies").
Toward the end of my stay in the Fijian Islands I determined to make
a journey far into the interior of Viti Levu (Great Fiji), the largest
island of the great Fijian archipelago. 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. After
a great deal of trouble I managed to get an interpreter named Masirewa,
who came from the small island of Bau.
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