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Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y weaning these fierce Polyneso-Papuans from the error of their ways. The climateof the islands is cool and agreeable in winter, and even in the summer the Loyaltysare not unsalubrious, though disturbed by frequent earthquakes. All of these islands areclaimed by the French^ and the latest official census gives the population at 13,334.* The Colony of Fiji. The Archipelago of Fiji or Viti comprises a group of nearly 200 islands, besides rocks, reefs, and islets. Of these, about eighty are inhabited. Its area may be roughly estimated at 8,034 square miles, of which at the present time only about 16,000 acres are under cultivation. The present population consists of about 100,000 natives, and less * Tableaux de la population, etc., dcs Colonies fi-an(;aises, pour Iannce 1375 (1877). 61) THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. than -2,000 whites. But the climate is a pleasant one, and owing to the recent acquisitionof the islinds by the British Government, it is likely that the colonists will rapidly
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_S^CSJ^^€g^f fe^ag^ ~^ FISHIXG-VILLAGE, LN A GUOVE OF COCOA-NUT TREES, NEW CALEDONIA. increase in number. In Levnka the average heat is about 79°, but this is tempered all theyear round by cool southern breezes, which render the actual heat less unendurable thanthe meteorological returns would lead us to believe it is. Levuka itself is, moreover, anexceptionally hot place, for in the uplands, even in the interior, the thermometer shows THE FIJI ISLANDS. 61 a much lower mean. Yet, throughout the whole country, the health of the whites isgood, dysentery—generally brought on by excess—being almost the only disease veryprevalent. European children often suffer from a disease of the eyes, induced by theglare of the sun, which for an hour or two in the middle of the day is excessively trying.The chief islands are Viti Levu (or Big Fiji), Vanua Levu (or Big Land), and Taviuni,the finest of all the islands both as to its soil and scenery. It is, indeed, as it is oftencalled, t

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