William Pritchard, -first resident British Consul in Fiji was born in Tahiti of missionary parents in 1829, and given extraordinary power by Fijian chiefs… changed Fijian histor,… was tried and dismissed by a British government in a gross miscarriage of justice. William Pritchard’s first wife [...]
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The sea-slugs (Holothuria) variously known as beche-de-mer, trapang, and dri, are found in the tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They were - and are - plentiful on the reefs of Fiji, especially in the shallow and quiet seas that cover the wide reef flats off the leeward coasts of the two large [...]
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In 1829 the Glide brought six Maoris from New Zealand to help in the beche-de-mer work. The beche-de-mer trader’s shore plant and equipment… were few, and of a kind easily put up by natives, with bush materials;
• the “fish” were taken by …divers working from canoes, and without any special gear. When they were received [...]
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