Crossword-Solution: LIFU 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Lihu, a Lifu boy, the recruiter's special attendant, was cut and pricked in various places, but nowhere seriously.

From New Caledonia the Bishop brought away a pupil named Dallup, and at two of the Loyalty Islands, Nengone or Mare, and Lifu, where Samoan teachers had excited a great desire for farther instruction, boys eagerly begged to go with him, and two were taken from each, in especial Siapo, a young Nengone chief eighteen or nineteen years old, of very pleasing aspect, and with those dignified princely manners which rank is almost sure to give.

The Lifu people are in a more critical state than any others just now, otherwise I should probably stop at San Cristoval.

PATTESON.' A few days later he writes:-- 'The "Southern Cross," returning to Lifu, will bring my letters; but unless a stray whaler comes to Lifu while I am there, on its way to Sydney, that will be the only exchange of letters.

Hence it is thought the leaven may work quietly in the Solomon Islands without me, but that at Lifu they really require guidance.