Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nights later, plump, matronly Amateur Hall stayed up until 4 a. m. to tell Pitcairners that Manhattan's British Consulate had cabled the High Commissioner of Suva, Fiji, to help them. Samaritan Mrs. Hall has talked to Pitcairn every night since. Said she: "I have never been anywhere, but my voice...
...Combing the river," as natives call such biannual shark drives, baffled Father Laplante completely, baffled as well those who saw his film. Even the missionary, who has spent ten years trying to implant French Catholicism in Fiji, was ready to admit possibility of something preternatural. He remembered having tried to convert a certain native. The man demurred; he was already a Methodist. When the tribe combed the river, the dusky Methodist waded inside the net with the vampire-priests, was bitten by a shark...
MURDER IN FIJI-John W. Vandercook -Crime Club...
Author Vandercook plays a detectifiction con-game against an exotic background. A lover of tropic islands (he has visited and written about Haiti, Trinidad, the South Seas), last year he spent three months on Viti Levu, largest of the Fiji Islands. He gives a first-hand picture of its gigantic, fuzzy-haired natives, once cannibals, now peaceable wards of the British Empire; its island-capital, Suva; its still undomesticated rivers, mountains, jungle. Murder in Fiji will cause hardened readers few authentic thrills but should throw them into pleasurable fijits of suspense. After two murders with cannibalistic garnishings, it looks...
...dispositions. Quarrels are widely believed to set up baneful influences which may harm the whole tribe. Hence politeness and affability are at a premium. Among some American Indians it is not customary to refuse any gift asked for by a guest, lest his displeasure work some ill. When the Fiji Islanders set out a new turtle net, the head of the family implores his kin to have no quarrels, which might put a curse on the net and drive the turtles away. The ba-Ila of Africa are certain that if a person is discontented with his portion of eland...