The great rock fortress of Na-koro-vatu on the Singatoka river was taken in the rebellion of 1876 by surprising the only approach on a Sunday morning, when the rebels thought that the government troops would be in church.
Ra Vatu had had economic and ethical objections to monogamy.
From an incorrigible heathen, with a heart as black as his practices, Ra Vatu was beginning to emanate light.
Ra Vatu was coming into the church, not merely as a converted heathen, but as a converted polygamist as well.
Ra Vatu is soon to become Lotu," Starhurst explained, "and I have come bringing the Lotu to you.
Ra Vatu has arranged that we should be well received.
The rocks of Na Raro and Vatu Kaisia differ as regards specific gravity, the “grain” of the felsitic groundmass, the presence of phenocrysts of rhombic pyroxene, etc.
Starting from Koro-vatu and crossing the Thombo-thombo promontory, I reached the coast of Mbua Bay near Navunievu.
It differs, for instance, from that of Vatu Kaisia in the larger grain of the felsitic groundmass (N.
Lying north-west of Vatu Kaisia is an elevated district which I have named after its highest summit, a square-topped peak rather higher than Vatu Kaisia and probably about 2,100 feet above the sea.
It is shown in the sketch given on page 113, and is situated about two miles north-west of Vatu Kaisia.
Vatu Kaisia and Soloa Levu occupy similar positions with respect to the great basaltic table-land of Wainunu, the first lying just within its eastern border, the second lying partly within its western margin.
Footnote 151: Unfortunately, I have no data for the peaks of Na Raro and Vatu Kaisia, except that specimens obtained below the summits are non-polaric.
The natives name it Vatu Kaisia, the first word signifying “rock,” whilst the second is the name of a demon.
In the case of Na Raro I did not retain the specimen obtained at the top; whilst in my ascent of Vatu Kaisia I did not quite reach the summit.
They occur in the isolated peaks of Na Raro and Vatu Kaisia and in one or two other localities, as in the Valanga Range and on the shores of Natewa Bay in the vicinity of the Salt Lake.
Unlike Vatu Kaisia, which often eludes the observation, Na Raro is visible from most points of view.
The man at the wheel must be told what direction to steer in order to miss Vatu Leile.
The immediate place she was bound to was a place on the chart ten miles north of Vatu Leile.
There was another sly little devil lying in wait to trip me up and land me smashing on the reefs of Vatu Leile.
There was nothing in the way with the exception of Vatu Leile, a miserable little island that persisted in poking up through the sea some twenty miles to the west-southwest-- just where I wanted to go.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vatu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
