GOVERNMENT--HEAD-HUNTING--SLAVERY--CANNIBALISM.
Hereditary Chieftainship--St. Christoval--Coast Tribes and Bush
Tribes--Their unceasing Hostility--Head-Hunting and Head-Money--
Greater Power of the Chiefs of Bougainville Straits--Gorai, the
Shortland Chief--How the Treasury Islanders became our Friends--Fauro
and its Chief--Choiseul Bay--In the calmest Seas there are occasional
Storms--A Tragedy, in several Acts--Hostilities between Alu and
Treasury--_Væ Feminis!_--Tambu Ban--Slavery, an easy Servitude if
it were not for one grave Contingency--A Purveyor of Human Flesh--
Cannibalism--A _Béa_--Fattening for the Market pp. 13-40