Posted on November 2, 2008 by levuka
The Journal of John Williams reported on August 1st, 1842;
Williams by canoe, in starlight, to buy yams: ‘ – Left home a little after midnight for Nasagalou in our canoe intending to purchase yams to set, and return by the next tide. Before I had got my trading finished a messenger came into the village [...]
Filed under: 1842, Food, Missionaries, Sandalwood, WILLIAMS Thomas, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society | Tagged: August 1842, Fiji, Food, Joseph Waterhouse, missionary, Sandalwood, Somosomo, Thomas Williams, Triton | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 2, 2008 by levuka
July 1839: From July 1839 Hunt and his family lived at Somosomo on Taveuni, where the Tui Cakau, an elderly warrior and intemperate man-eater, presided over his war-wracked realm of Cakaudrove,where his son, Tui Kilakila, wielded much of the effective military power. Richard Burdsall Lyth, another notable missionary, who was both minister and medical man [...]
Filed under: Bure kalou, CARGILL David, Cakaudrove, Death, Disease, John Hunt, July 1839:, LYTH, Richard Burdsall, Somosomo, Tui Cakau, Tui Kilakila, William GROSS | Tagged: 1839, cannibal, Disease, Fiji, missionary, Somosomo | Leave a Comment »
