Gordon Cumming stayed at Nakora Vatu (The Stone Town) on Viti Levu (Great Fiji) in December 1875, and travelled upriver inland to see the mountain scenery: 'We halted several days at Navounindrala, where the river branches off into two heads, the Wai Nimala, and the Wai Nimbooco ... After spending a week on the Wai Nimbooco we returned to the junction and thence turned up the course of the other stream, the Wai Nimala, and at sunset reached this town. We were greatly tantalised by the charming position of the teacher's house, on a somewhat isolated hill, commmanding a grand view ...' (C.F. Gordon Cumming, At Home in Fiji, London, 1881, pp. 139-144)