Fiji and the Fijians . le Circuit. During Mr. Waterhouses absence, the Circuit has been in the careof the Rev. J. S. Fordham, who had become well fitted for such acharge by his residence and sufferings at Nandi. Mara and a youngerbrother continue unsettled, and have succeeded in exciting ill-feelingand war, once more, near to Mbau. The King, who remains firm andconsistent in his profession of Christianity, deals with the hostile party32 492 FIJI AND THE FIJIAiq^S. as leniently as the maintenance of authority and order will allow, andstrives to avoid bloodshed as far as possible. The kingdom of
Fiji and the Fijians . le Circuit. During Mr. Waterhouses absence, the Circuit has been in the careof the Rev. J. S. Fordham, who had become well fitted for such acharge by his residence and sufferings at Nandi. Mara and a youngerbrother continue unsettled, and have succeeded in exciting ill-feelingand war, once more, near to Mbau. The King, who remains firm andconsistent in his profession of Christianity, deals with the hostile party32 492 FIJI AND THE FIJIAiq^S. as leniently as the maintenance of authority and order will allow, andstrives to avoid bloodshed as far as possible. The kingdom of peace is making daily progress, and the purereligion and undefiled of the Gospel has firmly established itself inthe heart of Fiji. But very much remains to be done, and the greatsuccesses which have followed the preaching of the Gospel, while fillingthe Missionaries with grateful wonder, have made them feel moreand more keenly the want of help to reap the ready harvest, the veryplentifulness of which overwhelms CHAPTEEIX. MBUA. The Mission labours, sufferings, and perils on the large island ofVanua Levu—the Great Land—have been similar to those already-described, although thej have their own events of peculiar greater part of the island still remains under the old darkness ofits superstition and cruelty; and the servants of Christ who have faith-fully laboured there, await with patient confidence the ultimate andglorious triumph of that Gospel which has so greatly blessed otherparts of Eiji. About 1843, the heathen Chief of Mbua procured a Teacher fromViwa to instruct a friend of his who had renounced idolatry for theChristian faith. This Teacher, and others who were afterwards sent tohis help, laboured under the indirect sanction of the Mbua Chief, andhad such encouraging success, that, although the district had beenunsettled by war, the converts, in 1845, amounted to three this fair prospect was darkened by a change in the feelingsa
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