Chapter I: Front Matter

Bathing _al fresco_—The Upper Rewa—Barter—Native houses—A
funeral—Weddings—Grace, 80

CHAPTER X.

Upper Rewa—Sunday among the converts—School examinations—A
“missionary meeting”—Savage ornaments—Red tape—_Mékés_—Evening
prayer—Marriages, 85

CHAPTER XI.

Christmas in Great Fiji—Pig feasts—Weddings—Fijian
names—Cannibal dainties—Christmas chimes—Sneezing—“Our Father”
in Fijian, 96

CHAPTER XII.

Quite alone in a mountain village—Return to Rewa—Basaltic
pillars—Rewa pottery—Bau—New Year’s eve—King Thakombau as an
elder of the Wesleyan Church—Pre-Christian times, 107

CHAPTER XIII.

A strange volcanic isle—Joeli Mbulu, a Tongan apostle—The
conversion of the people of Ono—Thakombau’s canoe—A royal
gardener—A small hurricane—Early prayers—Breakfast on
Thangalei—Between the breakers—At home at Nasova, 121

CHAPTER XIV.

Life at Nasova—Farmyard—Convict thatchers—Native festival at
Bau—Return to Nasova—Battles with crabs—Beginning of cannibal
disturbance—Fijian fairies—A storm, 134

CHAPTER XV.

Government House—Pets—Curios—Crabs—Native police—Death of Mrs
de Ricci, 147

CHAPTER XVI.

Good Friday in Fiji—Isle Koro—Planters’ Houses—Labour—Making
native cloth—Great feasts—Weddings—Salaries of Wesleyan
missionaries and teachers, 156

CHAPTER XVII.

Isle Ngau—Mud-crabs—Albinos—Bathing in the tropics—An earnest
congregation—A typical village—Fijian students—The burnt
waters—A narrow escape—Wreck of the Fitzroy, 173

CHAPTER XVIII.

Taviuni—Tui Thakow—Missionary perils—Their fruit of peace—Ratu
Lala—Rambi Isle—Gipsy life—Vanua Levu—A mission conference—The
isle of Kia—A village feast, 191

CHAPTER XIX.

The Chief of Mbua—Feudal rights—A night in a miserable
village—Church _à la_ St Columba—Night on a desert isle—Savu
Savu—Boiling springs—Their use—Past and future, 211

CHAPTER XX.

Nasova—The mountain war—A year’s progress—Fijian homage, 219

CHAPTER XXI.

A planter’s house—Angora goats—A lovely shore—Sericulture—The
mosquito plague, 235

CHAPTER XXII.

The pottery districts of Viti Levu—A cannibal’s register—A
night in a corn-shed—Funeral of Ratu Taivita, 243

CHAPTER XXIII.

Start for New Zealand—Extinct volcanoes—Sir George Grey’s
treasures—Tree-kangaroos, 260

CHAPTER XXIV.

Gold-mines—A new city—Native defences—Kauri forest—A hard
ride—Kati Kati—Tauranga Gate Pah, and cemetery—Ohinemutu—A
volcanic region, 272

CHAPTER XXV.

Bewildering new surroundings—The Maori dragon—Breakfast at
Wairoa—The mission-house—The hot lake—White terraces—Sulphur
and mud volcanoes—An unjust claim resisted—Champions from the
Antipodes, 290

CHAPTER XXVI.

Fijian rivers—Samoan envoys—Death of a true apostle—A
revival—Making a race-course—Mission to New Britain, 307

CHAPTER XXVII.

Various plantations—Crotons—Foreign labour—Green beetles—Loma
Loma—A Tongan colony—Hot springs, 328

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Notes on Fijian folk-lore—Legend of the rat and cuttle-fish:
the crane and the crab: essay of roast-pig: of gigantic
birds—Serpents worshipped as incarnate gods—Sacred stones
worshipped—Mythology and witchcraft, 345