Show IN THE FIJI ISLANDS cill fam llin rud oil or I UT telden I 1 lo 10 A generation ago the name fiji wai a common 11 I 1 inbok for or the grossest and most re Pulle e savagery o 0 Tho natives acro not imply cannibals bat bit their cannibalism wa was nn an everyday affair formin ary element in every ile sovereignty of the islands wa was first offered to 1 nyland ingland after a dis log history ol 01 internal feud in 1858 but the commissioner corom leeioner sent out ti ato reported adders e ij lean ahila the influx ot of anglish on ond d other I 1 european settlers increased and a stable government imaino a necessity in tho protectorate ats wae was again offered to england and ilk i wise to the united St attis but neither power cared to undertake the dubloe responsibility iwo yeara years later n brief experiment of constitutional gor gov eminent under a matirn prince was tried butchis but this tailed failed and treat ecat britain finally came to the re feln of the el V vilify 1 yeauro rung lid r I 1 bmw t om I 1 A mid we chism a laba tw for aorl aa I 1 wide I 1 1 41 1 amoni among llo enough to call tor for any write writes calvia alvin thorn thomss in the chau clan hers hem as elsewhere tho the policy baa has been wen whilo aay with savagery Bava gory to ireat treat native usages as gentl as possible the governor of bijl Is high commissioner of tho the western and ni ruch fuch has been a potent factor in checking the cahnt ba listle and slave trading barb for which tho the south sea waa was until lately notorious |