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Rh THE TONGA ISLANDS, 233 CHAPTER VIII. Arrival of Filimoeatoo at Foa— Description of the. sport caUed fanna kalai— Treaty of Filimoeatoo with the chi^f of Hihifo, respecting the bird kalai, for Finow— Desertion of several chiefs and warriors to Tonga— Island of Tofooa, and restrictions respecting cutting down the Toa tree (Casuarina)— Volcano on this island— Certain principles among 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 of Tonga from Botany Bay— Account given of Botany Bay by a Tonga chief and his wife, who had returned from there — Finow's ideas respecting the value and circulation of money— General slaughter of the dogs at Vavaoo, on ac- count of their destroying the game—Their flesh cooked and eaten by several chiefs — Finow's first essay at the sport of fanna kalai with the bird from Tonga. Shortly after the arrival of the prince, with Toobo Toa and Mr. Mariner, at the island of Foa, there came a canoe from Vavaoo with the Tonga chief Filimoeatoo, who, it will, be recol- lected, was a relation of Finow, and had joined his cause at Pangaimotoo, leaving the island of Tonga for that purpose, by leave of his supe- rior, the chief of Hihifo. Filim6eatoo was now on his return to the island of Tonga, with a