The hair is tied up with white thin kapa, resembling a turban, like the Papuans of Vegiu. [[259]]
When a chief dies, a number of his wives are killed to keep him company.
The Vitians do not change their names in sign of friendship, like the Polynesians.
On the Isle of Laguemba, the Tongans have settled and intermarried with the Vitians.
FIJI.[2]
The name for north and northeast wind is tokalau. In Hawaiian, koolau is the north and northeast side of an island. In Tahiti, toerau is the west and southwest.
Rev. Thos. Williams considers the Fiji group as the place of contact between the two races which occupy east and west Polynesia, or, “The Asiatic and African, but not Negro,” as he designated them. “The light Mulatto skin and well-developed muscles seen to windward are chiefly the result of long intercourse with the Tongan race.” “The Fijians have never acknowledged any power (foreign), but such as exists among themselves.”
“Rank is hereditary, descending through the female.”
“As in the Malayan, so in the Fijian, there exists an aristocratic dialect, which is particularly observable in the windward districts.”