David WHIPPYS’s Levuka dynasty; five Fijian partners and 12 known children with Adi TULIA, Yunus, Dorcas DELAU, and Tosaka LEVUKA

The photo shows Nantucket sailor and trader, David Whippy, a bold and commercially-minded adventurer, who created a Fijian dynasty; myriads of Whippys descended from this Levuka gene-source. He was recorded as married in Fiji 1827. This first David Whippy of Levuka was in Fiji by the age of 25, and died in [...]

1847: Missionary, George Pritchard, the first British Consular Agent for Samoa

“In 1847 the first British Consular Agent was appointed in the person of George Pritchard, a missionary of the London Missionary Society who had been obliged to leave Tahiti in consequence of his resistance to the growing power of France in the Society group. He was succeeded, in 1856, by his son, William T. Pritchard, [...]

In 1847, Cakobau raised money to fund wars, with a coconut-oil levy

In 1847, Cakobau ventured beyond the traditional limits of tribute, and raised money to carry on his wars by means of levies of coconut oil. The ingenious response was “casks were said to have been fitted with sham tubes fixed directly under the bung-holes; and, while the gauge-stick showed oil in plenty - in the [...]