Viti: an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands, in the years 1860-61
Year: 1862
Type: book
Abstract: fact, by all naval men who knew anything about the subject.Men high in office were equally favourably inclined towards the cession.However, before coming to any definite decision, the Government determined to obtain more ample information than was at hand, and early in 1860 I was asked to join a " Mission to Viti" -dispatched for that purpose.Whilst in Fiji, I was induced to write a series of letters on the country, its people, and productions, to the ' Atheneum,' which that journal did me the honour to publish, and which, whole or in part, found their way into several other home and colonial papers, were translated into German and French, and altogether obtained a circulation for which their original place of
Source: MacMillan Co eBooks
Authors: Berthold Seemann, Edmund Andrews, Irene Greene Owen Andrews
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1599777178