Fiji and the Fijians . SPEAR-HEADS, p. 44. wAn. 45 very few. Of these memorable few was a Chief of Wainunu. A shorttime before I settled in Vanua Levu, this man drove from him all hisinfluential friends, by a resolution to destroy a place which they desiredto save. An enemy of Tui Wainunu, hearing that he was deserted,deemed this a good opportunity to make a descent upon him, and pre-pared accordingly. His purpose, however, reached the watchful Chief,who determined at once to meet the emergency by acting himself on theoffensive. Depending on his own prowess and that of a youthfulnephew, he gat
Fiji and the Fijians . SPEAR-HEADS, p. 44. wAn. 45 very few. Of these memorable few was a Chief of Wainunu. A shorttime before I settled in Vanua Levu, this man drove from him all hisinfluential friends, by a resolution to destroy a place which they desiredto save. An enemy of Tui Wainunu, hearing that he was deserted,deemed this a good opportunity to make a descent upon him, and pre-pared accordingly. His purpose, however, reached the watchful Chief,who determined at once to meet the emergency by acting himself on theoffensive. Depending on his own prowess and that of a youthfulnephew, he gathered a few old men, whom age, rather than inclination,had kept near him, and proceeded by night to storm his enemys posi-tion. He and his young comrade entered the village about day-break,and, while the old men shouted amain outside, plied their clubs on thepanic-struck inhabitants within. Twenty-seven dead bodies were quicklyscattered over the place. The club of Tui Wainunu was raised to slayanother, when the nephew
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