Les Fidji et les Fidjiens . ailors, et aucun n'a encore pris leurs canots au-delà des limites de leur propre groupe. Un vieil homme que je connaissais, qui freight-de son canoë avec des pots et masi, a appelé à l'aide de son dieu, et sailedaway pour un pays que sa fantaisie, ou certains informateurs clés tout aussi absurde,lui jeter à l'ouest de l'exploration des îles Britanniques, et qu'il re-joiced à pense qu'il devrait ouvrir un commerce. Mais après une absence de deux jours, Toa-orthree Levu (la grande Pintade) retournée cimier-tombé et mal-nommé, et son échec a été souligné comme un avertissement à tous les ambi-navigateurs infectieux. Je n'ai jamais entendu parler de mais un fi

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Fiji and the Fijians . ailors, and none have yet taken their canoes beyondthe boundaries of their own group. One old man I knew, who freight-ed his canoe with pots and masi, sought the help of his god, and sailedaway for a land which his fancy, or some equally foolish informant, told him lay to the west of the Exploring Isles, and with which he re-joiced to think he should open a trade. But after an absence of two orthree days, Toa-levu (the Great Fowl) returned crest-fallen and dis-appointed, and his failure was pointed out as a warning to all ambi-tious navigators. I never heard of but one Fijian chief who had at-temped to steer his canoe to Tonga, though the people of that group, having the wind in their favour, pay yearly visits to Fiji. Though deficient in boldness, the native sailors display great skillin managing their vessels. When ready for sea, the mast, which is stepped on deck in a chock, stands erect, except that it is hauled tobend towards the outrigger. It is secured by fore and back-stays, the. CANOE-RIGGING. latter taking the place of shrouds: when the sail is hoisted, the hal-yards also become back-stays : these ropes, as long as the canoe isunder sail, may be called her standing rigging, not being loosed intacking. The halyards are bent on the yard at less than a third of its INDUSTRIAL PRODUCE, ETC. 61 length from the upper end, and passed over the top of the mast, whichhas generally a crescent form. The great sail is allowed to swing afew feet from the deck, or to lie upon it, until orders are given to getunder way. The yard is now hoisted hard up to the mast-head ; hut, as the length of the yard from the halyards to the tack is longer thanthe mast, the latter is slacked off so as to incline to that end of thecanoe to which the tack is fixed, thus forming with the lower length ofthe yard a triangle, of which the line of deck is the base. The ends of

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