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Yankee consul and cannibal king: John Brown Williams and the American Claims in Fiji (A study).

  • AU PMB MS 27
  • Collection
  • 1842 - 1874

John C. Dorrence (pseudonym James Hartley) spent a term as U.S. consul in Fiji. He wrote this study of J.B. Williams and the American claims in Fiji while at the University of Hawaii, basing it largely on unpublished letters in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. A full bibliography is included. The study is dated March 20, 1966.

A study of J.B. Williams' claims against the Fijian chief Cakobau and their impact on Fiji's history in the mid-19th century. Williams (1810-1860) was an official United States representative in Fiji from 1846 until his death in 1860. His claims led ultimately to the Chiefs' Cession of Fiji to Queen Victoria.

Dorrance, John C.

Correspondence and diary of Ba Campaign

  • AU PMB MS 125
  • Collection
  • 1870 - 1875

John Hall James, an Australian, was born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1848. He went to Fiji at the height of the cotton boom in 1866, took up land on Viti Levu, and returned to Australia eight or nine years later after a hurricane had destroyed his crops. He died in Melbourne in 1923.

The correspondence, which covers the period 1870 - 1875, and the diary of the Ba Campaign, May 1873, give a vivid idea of the life and attitudes of a European planter in Fiji just before and just after Cession.<BR><BR>For further descriptions see <I>Transactions and Proceedings of the Fiji Society</I>, 1958-59, Vol.7, pp.73-89.

James, John Hall

Private journal, 1875-1876

Private journal, 1875-1876

  • AU PMB MS 21-1
  • Pièce
  • 6 January 1875 - 24 May 1876

    • Fait partie de Private journal

Main journal entries written from Taviuni (Taveuni?), Macuata, Vanua Levu, Koroivono and Levuka, Fiji; on board schooner "Daphne" towards Futuna and Uvea; at Futuna and Uvea; on board schooner "Louisa Ryder" towards Samoa; Apia, Mulifanua and Falelatai, Samoa; Tutuial (now American Samoa); on board barque "Metaris" towards Fiji; on board schooner "Pio Nono" towards Samoa.

Young, James Lyle

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