The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom

BREADFRUIT.
AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF DARTMOOR PRISON, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1908
OTHER WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
South Sea Yarns The Diversions of a Prime Minister A Court Intrigue The Indiscretions of Lady Asenath Savage Island The Story of Dartmoor Prison
( In collaboration with Lord Amherst of Hackney) The Discovery of the Solomon Islands
Copyright, London 1908, by William Heinemann.

This volume does not pretend to be an exhaustive monograph on the Fijians. Their physical characteristics and their language, which have no bearing upon the state of transition from customary law to modern competition, are omitted, since they may be studied in the pages of Williams, Waterhouse and Hazlewood, which the author has freely consulted. All that is aimed at is a study of the decay of custom in a race that is peculiarly tenacious of its institutions—the decay that has now set in among the natural races in every part of the globe.