[1] They travelled in the Kaukifera or Kaunitoni, and the canoe landed in the western reef of Viti Levu, just north of the village of Viseisei, between Nadi and Lautoka.
Here the crew split, with one faction making a home on the island with Lutunasobasoba as a chief.
The Kaunitoni then sailed eastwards along the coast of Viti Levu under the leadership of Degei, landing at Rakiraki and going up to the Nakauvandra Mountains.
The winning story tells that the gods, Degei and Lutunasobasoba, were from Lake Tanganyika.
A widely accepted theory is that Fiji's first inhabitants were Proto-Polynesians of the Lapita culture, whose ancestors were from South East Asia.