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CHAPTER X NANDI. FRIGHT OF NATIVES ON FIRST SEEING A HORSE. The Mission at Nandi, a town on the southern coast of Vanua Levu, was commenced at the same time as that at Mbua, and has been maintained in the face of similar opposition, and in the midst of the same horrible cruelties and terrors of cannibalism and war. Operations here, as at Mbua, were commenced and carried on for a time from Viwa. Great good was done by the labours of the devoted native Teacher Joel Pulu ; but the visits of the Missionaries were, of neces- sity, " few and far between." Mr. Hunt had induced the people to build a Mission-house in a village where most of the Christians resided, and on the 9th of November, 1847, the Station was occupied by two Missionaries, — the Eev. "John "VVatsford, who had been Avorking at Viwa and Ono, and the Rev. James Ford, who had just arrived from England. Mr. Lawry, who accompanied them to Nandi, remarked in his Journal : — " The people live in the midst of the flats, which are approached, from the sea, by a creek running up through a dense bush of man-