THE TONGA ISLANDS

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CHAPTER VIII.

Arrival of Filimoeatoo at Foa—Description of the sportcalled fanna kalai—Treaty of Filimoeatoo with the chiefof Hihifo, respecting the bird kalai, for Finow—Desertionof several chiefs and warriors to Tonga—Island ofTofooa ,and restrictions respecting cutting down the Toa tree(Casuarina)—Volcano on this island—Certain principlesamong the Fiji islanders alluded to—Grave of John Nor-ton, of Captain Bligh ’s boat, with some account of him—.Extract from Bligh ’s narrative—Remarks upon the sub-ject—Some account of a ship arriving at the island ofTonga from Botany Bay—Account given of Botany Bayby a Tonga chief and his wife, who had returned from there—Finow’s ideas respecting the value and circulation ofmoney—General slaughter of the dogs at Vavaoo, on ac-count of their destroying the game—Their flesh cookedand eaten by several chiefs—Finow’s first essay at thesport of fanna kalai with the bird from Tonga .

Shortly after the arrival of the prince, withToobo Toa and Mr. Mariner, at the island ofFoa, there came a canoe from Vavaoo with theTonga chief Filimoeatoo, who, it will be recol-lected, was a relation of Finow, and had joinedhis cause at Pangaimotoo, leaving the island ofTonga for that purpose, by leave of his supe-rior, the chief of Hihifo. Filimoeatoo was nowon his return to the island of Tonga , with a