Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . t; but a peeping head dis-covered it, and it was recognised,and every one in the village soonlearned that this particular girlhad been drawn, and came beggingto see the result, and when we leftthe village they ran trooping afterus eager for a sight of the wonder-ful portrait, and all instantly sawthe likeness. It was astonishingthat these few lines suggestedanything to them, especially asthey had never seen anyone draw before. Their artistic per-ceptions are in advance of anything I have met elsewhereamong uneducated people. Mrs. Hopldns f
Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . t; but a peeping head dis-covered it, and it was recognised,and every one in the village soonlearned that this particular girlhad been drawn, and came beggingto see the result, and when we leftthe village they ran trooping afterus eager for a sight of the wonder-ful portrait, and all instantly sawthe likeness. It was astonishingthat these few lines suggestedanything to them, especially asthey had never seen anyone draw before. Their artistic per-ceptions are in advance of anything I have met elsewhereamong uneducated people. Mrs. Hopldns found in the village an old woman who hadacted as nurse to her children years before. The meeting wasmost touching. The poor old woman was so dehghted andexcited that she did not know what to do. The tears ran downher cheeks, and she caressed the hem of her former mistressdress, and rubbed her forehead on her hands, looking round atme with a pleading, dog-like expression, eloquent in its requestfor sympathy in her great joy. It must have been from ten. LAMBASA GIRL WITHAI TOMBI. Fijian Affection. 199 to fifteen years since they had met. Another old servantsought out her old employer at the house, and the meeting wasquite as striking. She came laden with gifts of eggs and withmats of her own making, and, squatting in front of her for-mer mistress, she seemed in every motion of her body, andevery look in her face, to be struggling ^vith an emotionbeyond all power of expression. I was greatly interested, asI had been told that, friendlyas Fijians may seem, theyare incapable of any sus-tained feeling or affection. We went for a picnic upthe country to the hotsprings of Mbati-ni-Kama,and passed through severalvillages, all clean and of them had earthworkfortifications round them,suggesting the old warlikedays. The wild tribes in themountain recesses were diffi-cult completely to subdue ;and it was at Seanganga, onthis island, as late as 1893,that the last instance ofcanni
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