At Home in Fiji (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from At Home in FijiThe king gives her Majesty his Old and favourite war-club, the former, and, until lately the only known, law Of Fiji.In abandoning club law, and adopting the forms and principles of civilised societies, he laid by his Old weapon and covered it with the emblems Of peace. Many Of his people, whole tribes, died and passed away under the Old law; but hundreds Of thousands still survive to learn and enjoy the newer and better state Of things.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.