1859: Tannese kill Levuka plantation owner, Norman, of Sandhurst, Victoria, enroute from Levuka to Norman’s plantation at Nasavusavu: Jimmie Lasulasu survives

Posted on September 14, 2008 by levuka

The Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4070, 7 September 1870, Page 3  reported Levuka trader Mr, Norman, well known in Sandhurst, Victoria, was murdered, and his body cooked after a group of 22 unnamed (slave labour) Tannese took over Norman’s boat, taking them from Levuka to Norman’s plantation. They wanted to go back home [...]

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1840: Levuka Chief offers gifts of women United States Exploring Expedition finds refusal hard as gifts refused, are “destroyed”

Posted on August 23, 2008 by levuka

“This custom of the country may not be so easily avoided; for as gifts when refused are destroyed, in the case of the present of a wife, considerations of humanity will place a resident stranger in a dilemma.
Clash of cultures: “European ideas’ of ” loyalty ” make but a slight approach to the deep feeling [...]

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