The first azzan - call to prayer - in Fjii was credited to Buddha Khan, one of the 92 Muslims who arrived from India with the first boatload of indentured laborers destined for the sugarcane farms of the then new British colony. After disembarking from the sailing ship “Leonidas” at Levuka, Khan gathered the Muslims [...]
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Copy of the correspondence which took place between Mr Des Voeux, Administrator of Fiji, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, relative to the detention of the coolie ship Leonidas at Nasova in May 1879.
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May 14, 1879: The ship Leonidas arrived in Levuka, and the first group of indentured labourers had arrived from Calcutta. All in all 87 vessels, carrying indentured labourers came to Fiji over a five year period.
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in 1879, five years after the cession of Fiji to Great Britain, legislation was enacted to protect the interests of the Fijians against the depredations of visiting ships, and it became illegal to take beche-de-mer without a licence from the Governor.
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