Excerpt from The Fiji of to-Day The Fiji of Yesterday is rapidly becoming history. Its dark deeds are gradually being forgotten. That horrible stain of human blood is gone from the earth, and the grass is green again - nay; greener. In the Fiji of To-day new conditions of life have arisen, and these have given birth to new problems and difficulties. Their immediacy and seriousness are the chief reasons for the appearance of this book. Around two great facts the main problems of the book gather. The first is that Me Fijian ...
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Excerpt from The Fiji of to-Day The Fiji of Yesterday is rapidly becoming history. Its dark deeds are gradually being forgotten. That horrible stain of human blood is gone from the earth, and the grass is green again - nay; greener. In the Fiji of To-day new conditions of life have arisen, and these have given birth to new problems and difficulties. Their immediacy and seriousness are the chief reasons for the appearance of this book. Around two great facts the main problems of the book gather. The first is that Me Fijian is dying. No juggling with figures can deceive us in this particular, for at the rate of fifteen hundred per annum does this mortal decrease continue. When a serious epidemic touches the islands, old Charon's barque is laden to the very brim. In 1875 the measles carried off a quarter of the population Fifty years ago there were inhabitants: to-day, there are The naked truth, therefore, faces us that, unless we find some method of arresting 'this decrease, in a few score years the Fijian Church, of which Christendom has been so proud, will be blotted out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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