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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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OUR HOME IN FIJI, _Frontispiece_

ISLES OF OVALAU, MOTURIKI, BAU, AND VIWA. FROM VITI LEVU, 111

HOT SPRINGS, ISLE NGAU, 180

A CHIEF’S KITCHEN, 208

MAP, _At the end_

NOTE.—CANNIBAL FORK.

The Cannibal Fork represented on the binding of this book is a facsimile of a fair average specimen. Some of the chiefs had forks eighteen inches long, of dark polished wood, with handles richly carved.

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With reference to the vegetables specially reserved for cannibal feasts, Dr Seemann describes the Boro dina (_Solanum anthropophagorum_) as a bushy shrub, seldom higher than six feet, with a dark glossy foliage, and berries of the shape and colour of tomatoes. This fruit has a faint aromatic smell, and is occasionally prepared like tomato-sauce. The leaves of this plant, and also of two middle-sized trees (the Mala wathi, _Trophis anthropophagorum_, and the Tudano, _Omalanthus pedicellatus_), were wrapped round the _bokola_ and baked with it on heated stones.

AT HOME IN FIJI.