Posted on October 7, 2007 by levuka
Leonidas with Captain McLachlan on board, sailing from Calcutta (now called Kolkata) on March 3 (1879). The ship Leonidas arrived in Levuka, and the First group of indentured labourers had arrived from Calcutta.
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Posted on October 5, 2007 by levuka
1801: Oliver Slater told of the sandalwood in western Vanua Levu in 1801, and for the next thirteen years traders shipped this product to Port Jackson in Australia.
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