The book opens in a smoky Fijian bure where the elders gather for story-telling. Thomson, who served in Fiji’s colonial administration, then tells of a court day, the last of the cannibal chiefs, a reforming chief, an indentured coolie princess and a terrified girl clinging to a rocky pinnacle; the colonial outlook is that of the 1890s.
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