1835: Fijian double canoe with platform and cabin

Lorimer Fison, in his  Tales of Old Fiji, used this undated and unreferenced image, above,  “from an old block” etching of a “Fijian double canoe.”
Construction of the double canoe: Fison wrote “A double canoe is made of two queer-shaped boats, which are fastened together, side by side, with a considerable space between them, [...]

1840: Polygamy made sense in Levuka as the care of a Feejee household was “too much hard work for one woman”

An American visitor to Levuka, Fiji, in 1940, said “Everything relating to the procuring and preparing of food, except in part the taking of fish, appeared to devolve upon the women ; and I often met them bearing (on the back) enormous loads of firewood and yams”.
Men carry no burdens: “On the other hand, I [...]