Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-11-17

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werc amnng the party that buiarzksei
the CAV deceiver, bccs0se they earned
out their orders ~ yell that, in three
weeks after, the young fellow died from
the effects.
In the old times most of US whites and
natives would have said, "Seive him
right" and the matter would have ended.
But nov there was law in the land; the
warden ordered the arrest Of RavusO.
After some trouble he was coaxed to sur
render, and was confined at Somo- SOmO,
awaiting trial. Nothing so puzzles 4
Feejecan as the slow procedure Of Eng
lish law, and poor RavusO pined in prison.
So one day he asked his Ban Lailers) to
be allowed a walk; they accompanied
him, and all sat down under large wi
tree. After time the chief proposed to
get some wis, and climbed the tree for
the purpose. When he got to the top he
called out to his astonished guards that
he was going to throw himself down
headlong. "Tell your white judge" said
he, 'that am chief, and the son of
chief; that can't survive the disgrace
of being imprisoned like felon; that the
punishment given to the man of mine
was just-lhe was bad man; that l am
chief, and had right to punish him
vakaviti" (after the manner of Feejee.)
So saying, he threw himself down, broke
his back, and died shortly afterward.
In day or two the news of the chiefs
death reached Wsia, and wall went up
from each little village EMPOWERED in its
cocoa-nut grove, for the death of their
"Turaga," as they call their chiefs. His
wife, Lau Wal TO strike water as in fish,
ing), and young daughter (ifteen years
only, made up their minds that their
chief should not go unaccompanied to
Hades, but have some one to cook and
look after him there. So one night they
tied rope between two trees, twisted it
round their necks, and so strangled them
selves after the old Feejeean fashion.
These people had been Christians ten
years, but evidently believed in their old
traditions still.
And now the sad tale Of the death of
this unfortunate Wal chief and his fam
lily is told in many Feejeean hamlet in
the cool evenings, as the sun goes down
under the shade Of the lofty wis and CO.
coanut trees; and the women and chill
dren hear with thrill of the power of
that mysterious nata-ni-tu whose action
hurled a Feejeean chief from his high es-
tate, and sent him and his devoted wife
and daughter prematurely before the face
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