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... ...Rev Joseph Waterhouse...The Rev Joseph Waterhouse was a prominent Wesleyan Methodist missionary born in 1828 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, who served extensively in Fiji from 1850 onward. ...The King and People of Fiji
Author: Rev Joseph Waterhouse
Publisher: Wesleyan Conference Office
Date: 1866
...Rev Joseph Waterhouse ...The Rev Joseph Waterhouse was a prominent Wesleyan Methodist missionary born in 1828 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, who served extensively in Fiji from 1850 onward. ...
The King and People of Fiji (1866) centres on the biography of Thakombau (Cakobau), Fiji's chief from 1817-1883, blending it with ethnographic details of Fijian society before the 1854 Christian reformation. It covers pre Christian manners, customs, superstitions, court politics, mythology, community structures, inter-island warfare, cannibalism rituals (like consuming war captives and widows), and hospitality toward missionaries and visitors. Chapters open dramatically, such as "First Blood" depicting young Thakombau's initiation in revenge killings.
The King and People of Fiji
Author: Rev Joseph Waterhouse
Publisher: Wesleyan Conference Office
Date: 1866
non-fictionThe King and People of Fiji (1866) centres on the biography of Thakombau (Cakobau), Fiji's chief from 1817-1883, blending it with ethnographic details of Fijian society before the 1854 Christian reformation. It covers pre Christian manners, customs, superstitions, court politics, mythology, community structures, inter-island warfare, cannibalism rituals (like consuming war captives and widows), and hospitality toward missionaries and visitors. Chapters open dramatically, such as "First Blood" depicting young Thakombau's initiation in revenge killings.
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