1825: Takai and Langi `expressed a strong desire that Teachers should be sent to Lageba in the Fiji’s

In 1825, at Papara on Tahiti, the LMS missionary, John Davies met a Fijian named Takai from Lakeba. He had traveled to Tahiti by way of Sydney, accompanied by a Tongan, Langi, from Tongatapu. Both Davies’ visitors had lived in Fiji. They knew Walter Lawry was preaching Christianity on Tongatapu. Davies taught them to read; [...]

1825: Peter Dillon sailed under Chilean colours from Valparaiso as captain and part-owner of the “St Patrick” to New Zealand to load spars for Calcutta

Peter Dillon (1795-1849) An Irishman by birth though of uncertain descent, spent several years as a sandalwood trader in the South Pacific. But fame did not come to him until 1825 when he sailed under Chilean colours from Valparaiso as captain and part-owner of the St Patrick to New Zealand to load spars for [...]

Oeno of Nantucket was lost in 1825 on the a dangerous reef - Vuata Vatoa

The trade in beche-de-mer now began to attract ships, and soon there was as much shipping as in the best years of the sandalwood trade. but the proportion of losses was high. The beche-de-mer ships usually approached Fiji from Tonga; they kept well to the south, and entered through the passage between Oges and Vatoa, [...]

1825, Peter Dillon came in the Calder, and revisited his old haunts of Bua Bay

In 1825, Peter Dillon came in the Calder, and revisited his old haunts of Bua Bay to pick up sandalwood, but with small success.
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