Description of Tour throughout the different Islands of the Group, &c.-pp. 1-57. * Vide page 140. which densely cover the mountains lying between Koro-i-vono and Xatawa bay, many fine specimens of the dakua, the Fijian kauri pine, dakuasalusalu, and other kinds of good timber trees were seen for the first time, and several kinds of ferns were added to my collection. The dakua formerly abounded at Koroi-vono.-Seemann mentioning that some large ones existed there in 1860-61 ;-but European sawyers have played sad havoc among them, and large trees were only found in the more inaccessible parts of the mountains. At Togaloa I learnt that all the Bulis or district el liefs in the province of Cakaudrove had gone to Somo-somo, in the island of Taviuni, to attend the provincial council, which the Hoko Tui, or supreme chief of the province holds twice in the year. The Fijians have (and Ik 'fore the islands were ceded to Great Britain had) an elaborate system of polity by which all tribal ami provincial matters are discussed and regulated. As I could not get carriers from one district to another without coming, in some degree, in contacl with this system, an outline of it may be interesting. the native stipendiary magistrates meet once a year in the great council (Bose vaka Turaga), and discuss the " Dative affairs of the nation." At this meeting each Eok<> grives a detailed report of the province of which he has charge. These reports are severely criticised by the other chiefs, and suggestions are offered as to such executive and legislative measures as the assembly would like to see adopted hy the Government. The resolutions of the great council are mere recommendations which the Government of the colony is free to accept or reject. On arriving at a village I was conducted to the Bure ni Sa, or strangers' house, one of which is to he found in every village, or to the house of the chief. The Governor's letter was read, and the Turaga ni Koro in council appointed the guide and the men who were to he the carriers to the next town or district, and without such not a man would lift a package. It being midday when I arrived at the village, and finding all the men were at work making a new road, I left my packages to be sent after me the next morning, and then, with a guide, pushed on to Savu-savu, where I arrived at 4 p.m. The distance from Savu-savu bay to Vuni Sawani is said to be only 7 miles ; but by the zigzag way I was taken by the guide from village to village, it was not less than 16 miles. This is vaka vitl, i.e., Fiji custom or fashion. Some fine views of the country were obtained, and several fertile valleys were passed where coffee, cacoa, &c, could be grown. About 1 square miles of fine cane land, consisting of flats and low hills, were observed,-notably in the vicinity of Savu-savu bay, though separated from it by a ridge of low hills. The general character of the country is hilly, steep, and undulating ; but the quality of the soil is fair and good, and water abounds in all the valleys, Most of the land had been c...