they have delicate features, slight figures, and
are generally pretty.

The _Feejee Group_ excel all other islands of Polynesia in their
luxuriant and picturesque beauty--they produce all kinds of tropical
fruits and vegetables--the bread-fruit, of which there are nine kinds,
flourishes in great perfection; the banana, cocoa-nut, and chestnut, the
orange, the lemon, and the guava, the pine-apple, and the nutmeg, are
all to be found; and the yam, which attains the length of above four
feet, is the principal food of the inhabitants; besides these, the
sugar-cane and turmeric are largely cultivated, and different varieties
are found growing wild. Although the Feejeeans have made considerable
progress in several useful arts, they are in many respects the most
barbarous and savage race now existing upon the globe. Having had
considerable intercourse with white men, some effect has been produced
in their political condition, but it has had no effect in mitigating the
ferocity of their character. Messrs. Lythe and Hunt, missionaries at
Vuna, one of the Feejees, have given a circumstantial account of a
cannibal feast, for the preparation of which they were eye-witnesses.
The missionaries having heard rumours that the king had sent for some
men belonging to a refractory town not far from the capital, with the
intention of killing them, and afterwards feasting on their bodies, they
went to the old king to urge him to desist from so horrid and barbarous
a repast, and warned him that a time would come when he would be
punished for it. The king referred them to his son; but the savage
propensities of the latter rendered it impossible for them to turn the
savage from his barbarous purpose. They afterwards saw the bodies cut
up and cooked. On two of these islands, however, the efforts of
missionaries have been rewarded with some success; for the Reverend Mr
Calvert, belonging to the Wesleyan society, assured the officers of the
expedition, that in those islands heathenism was fast passing away, and
that cannibalism was there extinct; but it must be observed that many of
the residents on those two islands were Tongese, among whom it is well
known the light of the gospel of Christ has long prevailed.

On one of those isles are five hot springs, the temperature of which is
200 degrees; the rocks in the neighbourhood is of volcanic creation--
there is no smell of sulphur unless the head is held close to the water;
but the water has