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A History of the Pacific Islands

By the same author:

Fragments of Empire: a history of the Western Pacific High Commission 18771914

I, the Very Bayonet

Viceroy of the Pacific

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Fiji: a short history

Fiji: the politics of illusion: the military coups in Fiji

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A History of the Pacific Islands

PASSAGES THROUGH TROPICAL TIME

Deryck Scarr

First Published in 2001

by Curzon Press

Published 2013 by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2001 Deryck Scarr

Typeset in Baskerville by LaserScript Ltd, Mitcham, Surrey

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-700-71293-9 (hbk)

To Marion

Levuka 13 September 1962 Canberra 1 September 1999

Beloved forever

Contents

. Pacific General

. New Guinea and Solomon Islands

. Marianas, Caroline, Marshall and Gilbert Islands

. Fiji, Tonga, Samoa

. Marquesas

. Tahiti

. New Hebrides (Vanuatu)

. Hawaii

. Gambier Group

. New Caledonia

(Between pages 132 and 133)

Plate

:	Dolphin frigate among the Society Islands
:	Dolphin frigate among the Society Islands
:	Dolphin frigate among the Society Islands
:	Dolphin frigate among the Society Islands
:	Beached at Taputapuatea
:	In Torres Strait Providence and Assistance under attack
:	General Order of Sailing, Torres Strait
:	Off northern New Hebrides
:	Off Aitutaki
:	Cutter and canoes in Torres Strait
:	Light craft off Tahiti
:	Camakau beached at Levuka, early 1870s
:	Master of Elenoa and Xariffa Enele Maafuatuitonga, turaga Tui Lau, 1870s
:	Taufaahau King Siaosi Tupou I of Tonga
:	A Samoan alii
:	Ile Nou prison cells; convicts condemned to death
:	Ile Nou prison cells; convicts condemned to death
:	At the Isle of Pines, 1880s
:	Djeuner sur le pont aboard the Effie
:	Cakobau granddaughters Adi Vuikaba and Adi Litia
:	Vila harbour, New Hebrides, 1890s
:	Nouma Quay, 1903
:	H.M.S. Nelson and canoes at Port Moresby
:	H.M.S. Nelson and canoes at Port Moresby
:	Plantation bungalow, early twentieth century, Guadalcanal
:	Chinatown, Rabaul
:	Madang
:	Coast, Guadalcanal
:	Gavutu, British Solomon Islands, Lever Brothers headquarters, schooner Vernon on slips

The Fijian alphabet always gives the most trouble, efficient though it is. Q and g are ng as in finger, b is mb as in number, c is th as in that, d is nd as in end.

Island names endeavour to follow local usage, though with recognition of the fact that Kiribati and Vanuatu were, for far longer, the Gilbert Islands and the New Hebrides, respectively. Palau may appear as Belau, Truk rarely does so as the very modern Chuuk.

Hawaii carries the glottal stop when Hawaii Island is in question; without the glottal, the reference is to the Hawaiian group itself.

aiga	kin group
akarika	Marquesan high chief
atua	divinity
eiki	sacred
ariki	Tahitian chief
alii	Samoan chief
arii rahi	Tahitian high chief
bati	Fijian warrior
baurua	Gilbertese sailing vessel
bokola	corpse for Fijian ovens
bure kalou	Fijian enclosed temple
cama	outrigger
camakau	small outriggered sailing vessel
cauravou	Fijian youths
dimdim	white person, as seen in Papua New Guinea

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