1875: writer, Anthony Trollope - “Levuka has been the white man’s capital in Fiji”; merchants and the missionaries compelled colonial control

 English writer, postal commissior, Anthony Trollop gives an English view of Fiji in 1875, after visiting Consul Hector Robinson, who quotes Cakobau as he explained his tactic in ceding to Britain..
October 1874: Trollope reported the British flag was hoisted, “with the usual formalities,” by Sir Hercules Robinson, in Fiji. Anthony Trollope, in The Tireless Traveler: [...]

12th. July 1853: Cannibal tales from Levuka: Joseph Waterhouse “We live in a dark spot of the world. I could fill the sheet with horrible tales”

After a year in Fiji at Levuka Joseph Waterhouse has lot some of his sparkle. He writes about a the joy of a pot of jam received as a gift, and reports of the Bau culture of cannibilism, where any person with “salt water on them” - friend or not, is eaten [...]