Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . ally quite dry enough for wearnext morning ; and, when the weather was very wet, onedamp thing more or less did not make much difference. Ioften thought of the very careful airing my clothes get athome ; but, in the warm equable climate of Fiji, we can playtricks with ourselves which would be madness for headaches, neither of us was ill all the time wewere there, in spite of there being a good deal of dysentry anddengue fever about, but I think never drinking anything butboiled water saved us. The thermometer which I ca
Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . ally quite dry enough for wearnext morning ; and, when the weather was very wet, onedamp thing more or less did not make much difference. Ioften thought of the very careful airing my clothes get athome ; but, in the warm equable climate of Fiji, we can playtricks with ourselves which would be madness for headaches, neither of us was ill all the time wewere there, in spite of there being a good deal of dysentry anddengue fever about, but I think never drinking anything butboiled water saved us. The thermometer which I carriedwith me kept pretty steadily between eighty and ninety night i8o Islands Far Away. and day. It seldom went above ninety, and never up toanywhere near a hundred. It was not often below eightyexcept in the mountains, and an occasional seventy seemedquite cold. It was not necessary to carry any wraps, evenat sunset, for there are no sudden chills, wliich makes theclimate safer than that of Kandy in Ceylon, to which I wouldbe inclined to compare BREAD FRUIT. Chapter XXIX. AMONG ROCKS, OVER RAPIDS IN A NATIVE CANOE, Mr. Russel had most kindly made our arrangements for uson this part of the way, and had ordered that a native canoewith men should await us at the nearest navigable point onthe Rewa to carry us down. Two horrid looking men camein in the evening, with hardly anything on. We were toldthese were our men, and our hearts sank, for we felt that itwould not be at all nice to be away for days alone with themon the river. They were very dark, with low foreheads andheavy jaws, and a most forbidding expression about their bigmouths. I was sorry, for it seemed a pity that this choicepart of our trip should be spoiled by any unpleasantness. At da^vn next morning we started for Waisomosomo, whereour canoe was awaiting us. I wished I could linger to sketchthe view, it was so beautiful, but we had a long journey beforeus, and it would not do to be benighted on the river. So my
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