I Slept The Next Morning Till Seven O'clock, And Masirewa Told Me That The Natives Could Not Understand My Sleeping So Late, And That They Thought I Was Drunk On "Angona," Of Which I Had Partaken The Night Before.

"Angona" is the same as "kava" in Samoa, and is the national beverage in Fiji.

Masirewa now only wore a "sulu" and discarded his singlet. I suppose it was a case of "In Rome do as Rome does," but he certainly looked better in the dark skin he wore at his birth. I was shown the large rock by the river where more than a thousand people had been killed for their cannibal feasts. They were usually prisoners captured in the Rewa district, also a few white men. They were cut open alive and their hearts torn out, and their bodies were then cut up for cooking on the rock, which I noticed was worn quite smooth. Sometimes they would boil a man alive in a huge cauldron.

While staying at Namosi the "Buli" gave me some lessons in throwing native spears, and in using the bow. Whilst practising the latter I narrowly missed, by a few inches, shooting a woman who stepped out suddenly from behind a hut.

I was out most of the day shooting pigeons in the woods close by, accompanied by the "Buli," Masirewa, and several boys. The woods were full of a wonderfully beautiful creeper, a delicate pink and white CLERODENDRON which grew in large bunches; there was also a very pretty HOYA (wax flower) scrambling up the trees.

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