The wives of the Fijian chiefs consider it a sacred duty to suffer strangulation on the deaths of their husbands.

Another foreign observer tells of a Fijian woman who loaded her rescuer "with abuse, and ever afterwards manifested the most deadly hatred towards him."

From the sea end of the deserted wharf came a big, greasy Maori and a fuzzy-headed Fijian, and their words went out into the silence like sound projectiles.

"Yes, the white waterfall," repeated the Fijian.

" "To the right?" questioned the Fijian.

"The way to heaven," echoed the Fijian; then the two lifted up their voices and chanted: "That's the way to heaven, That's the way to heaven, That's the way to heaven out Of Black Fernando's hell.

"Sixty," answered the Fijian.

Sing it now with me!" The Fijian, who was apparently afraid of the bully, hurried to obey the order, and I wondered as I listened.

"Sixty paces to the left," squeaked the Fijian.

The Maori wore a dirty khaki coat, with a pair of trousers reaching to his knees, while the Fijian, instead of being short-rigged in shirt and sulu, sported a full suit of duck.

" The small Fijian gave a little gurgle of surprise and looked up at his big teacher, who regarded me with eyes of wonder.

The Fijian's desire to get revenge for his "all same brother's death" was something that might be to our advantage later on, and I looked upon Kaipi as a staunch ally in the event of trouble.

The little Fijian performed the trick about seven o'clock in the evening, and it was done in a most effective manner.

The Fijian was so proud of the blade that he could hardly be prevented from burying an inch of the steel in the prisoner's body.

The Fijian's desire to use his knife on all occasions was somewhat irritating.

Was this a remnant of a forgotten cannibalistic habit, or a protest of the Tahitians and Hawaiians against the custom as not being Polynesian, but a concession to a fashion adopted in fighting the Fijian anthropopogi?

I have been worried to know whether this was owing to some innate depravity of disposition on my part, some malignant torturing instinct, which, under different circumstances, might have made a Fijian anthropophagus of me, or to some law of thought for which I was not answerable.

I have been much drawn out in prayer for the Fijian chiefs.

Fijian women believed "that to be tattooed is a passport to the other world, where it prevents them from being persecuted by their own sex."

Only a wag or a fool, again, would argue that a Fijian has just as much right as we have to his opinions on medical matters, or on the morality of polygamy, infanticide, and cannibalism.

II. London, 1894: on Fijian Poetry.

Love, conjugal: Nature of; Mistakes regarding; African; Australian; Dyak; Fijian; Hawaiian; New Zealand; Indian; Hindoo; Greek.

Love-poems: Turkish; Fijian; Somali; Esthonian; Hottentot; Harari; New Zealand; Indian; Hindoo; Song of Songs; Greek.

Week after week they saw nothing but sea and sky, and Mr. Chalk, thirsting for change, thought with wistful eagerness of the palm-girt islands of the Fijian Archipelago to which Captain Brisket had been bidden to steer.

He spoke learnedly of atolls, copra, and missionaries, and, referring for a space to the Fijian belles, thought that their charms had been much overrated.