Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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. Of late years they have been restrainedfrom this practice, but not without some severe lessons. The Tanna men are not much unlike them, their informant con-tinued, but they are less treacherous and sullen, and are better work-ers. They eat the flesh of men when they can get it, but they are alsofond of dogs, cats, lizards, rats, and flies. As he spoke he pointed to a pen containing several puppies whichthe Tanna men were fattening, and would make the basis of a grandfeast on their next holiday. From Suva the party went by a local steamer to Levuka, Colonel FROM SUVA TO LEVUKA. 165 Bush being unwilling to risk the Pera among the rocks and reefs, whichrender navigation far from safe in these waters. They found the har-bor of Levuka smaller than that of Suva, but in other respects equalto it, as the anchorage was good, and the place well sheltered fromgales. The barrier reef which forms the harbor is about a mile fromshore, and has two passages by which vessels may enter or leave port.
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ATESUE OF PALMS. Of course the removal of the capital to Suva was a severe blow toLevuka, but the place has a good commerce of its own, and being morecentrally situated in regard to all the islands of the group, it is in nodanger of decay. It contains three or four hotels and several boarding-houses, and its mercantile establishments are generally of a substantial 166 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. character. There are Weslej^an, Catholic, and Episcopalian churches inLevuka, several branch buildings of the Government offices, and a well-kept hospital for the use of such European strangers as may need med-ical attention. The founders of Levuka were not altogether happy in one respect,said one of the residents, who was pointing out its features to ourfriends. The hills around it are so steep that it was not practicableto extend the town over them; w^e could build our dwelhngs there, butit was out of the question to establish stores and shops where people

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