Author: FISON, LORIMER.
Title: Tales From Old Fiji.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp.xlvi, 176; frontispiece, map, 19 pages of b/w plates, original green boards with gilt blind stamp title on spine and front board also gilt blind stamp illustration on front board; appendix, index; foxing to early and last pages; foxing to page edges; a good copy. London, Alexander Moring Ltd, 1904. Includes cannibalism, burials, cats, strangely Napoleon, the beginnings of death, Tonga, illustrations include chiefs grave mound and burial of a chief, pig feast in Samoa, Fijian club dance, and widow strangling in Fiji and the great Temple at Bau.

Keywords: south pacific history Pacific New Zealand cannibalism burials cats death religion Tonga Samoa