Crossword-Solution: KORO 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Journey to Taviuni--Samoan Songs--Whistling for the Wind--Landing on Koro--Nabuna--Samoans and Fijians Compared--Fijian Dances and Angona Drinking--A Hurricane in the Southern Seas--Arrival at Taviuni--First Impressions of Ratu Lala's Establishment--Character of Ratu Lala--Prohibition of Cricket--Ratu Lala Offended--The Prince's Musical Box.

Instantly the witchcraft ends, like the wonder of some dream broken by a sound; the chanting ceases; the round dissolves in an outburst of happy laughter, and chatting, and softly-vowelled callings of flower-names which are names of girls, and farewell cries of 'Sayonara!' as dancers and spectators alike betake themselves homeward, with a great koro-koro of getas.

There the pilgrims wash their eyes with the water of the sacred spring, and kneel before the shrine and murmur the holy formula of Ichibata: 'On-koro-koro-sendai-matoki-sowaka'--words of which the meaning has long been forgotten, like that of many a Buddhist invocation; Sanscrit words transliterated into Chinese, and thence into Japanese, which are understood by learned priests alone, yet are known by heart throughout the land, and uttered with the utmost fervour of devotion.

Celo - aim; simile - like; fantomo - phantom, apparition; sorto - fate; moko - mockery; elekti - to choose; flanko - side; guto - drop; frapi - to strike; bori - to bore; signo - sign; atingi - to attain; laca - weary; semo - seed; cxesi - to cease; admoni - to exhort; koro - heart; vento - wind; subita - sudden; velki - to wither; desxiri - to tear from, pluck off; akiri - to acquire; provi - to make trial of; hardi - to harden.

Instantly the witchcraft ends, like the wonder of some dream broken by a sound; the chanting ceases; the round dissolves in an outburst of happy laughter, and chatting, and softly-voweled callings of flower-names which are names of girls, and farewell cries of "Sayonara!" as dancers and spectators alike betake themselves homeward, with a great _koro-koro_ of getas.