Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-11-23
Jenson's Travels.

the NausoH planiauoni on H"'so ""'"
ride through the sugar cane fields, by
which means obtained better knowl'
edge Of cane raising than ever had be
fore. Hundreds Of people were at work
doing the various kinds Of labor as
ISOLATED with the cane culture. Several
small incidents occurred. one man was
slapped by the manager ior not doing
his work properly. A woman laborer
who claimed to be sick and unable to
work was ordered sent to the hospital;
and another one who claimed to have
been insulted by the foreman and came
running after the manager crying and
telling a strange tale Of woe,was ordered
back to work as her story was not be-
lieyed. Mr.. Moltko told me that Incl
dents Of that kind happened more ire
quently on Mondays than any other day
of the week, as many OF the people,
after having rested on the Sunday we're
loath to return TO their work again
Well, taking everything into considera'
ton can not say that admire contract
labor. The question naturally arises.
wha, are these people but slaves during
the FIVE years Of their inden,ure' Their
bodies are certainly not their own dur
ing that length Of time. They are also
subjected 10 harsh treatment; the only |
excuse given for which is that they could |
no, be controlled without II; that they
arc incapable Of approaching kindness
and would become absolutely useless as
laborers on plantation, II they were
treated with that consideration which Is
generally extended to white people.
Their intelligence, was informed
could not be appealed to successfully, as
all they feared was corporal punishment
which by the way, is not allowed by law.
took dinner with Mr.. Moltke, whose
wife is a New Zealand eolonist, born OF
English parents.
Tuesday, August 18th. spent the
day writing and converting with my
friends at the Nausoh mills about Utah
and the "Mormons." Both Mr.. Thielc
and Mr.. Wilson, whose guest was dur.
ing my sojourn on the Rewa riyer, are
both Intelligent men. Mr.. 1hiele's
family is in sydney, and Mt. Wilson Is
unmarried.
Wednesday, August i4lh. ! felt weak
from violent bilious attack from which
/ had suffered during the night, In con.
sequence OF which gave up a walk OF
twelve miles which had contemplated
across the country from the mills to
Suya: and hired boat instead to take
me by water. We tied the boat to a
steam launch, which sailed ten miles
down TO the Lancala bay, from where
my hired Indian fowed me two miles
across the bay to the peninsula upon
which Suva Is situated, leaving me TO
walk about three miles to the town. On
my arrival at Suva was disappointed At
finding that a circus had just arrived,
which had broken into an arrangement
made for me to lecture that evening at
the Mechanics Hall.
THURSDAY, August 18TH The steamer
Ovalau, one Of the Union Steamship
company's boats, arrived at Suva from
Samoa en.route for New Zealand, via
Tonga. AS a number OF our Elders are
labofing ON the Tongan group nj the
present time, decided to take passage
Tor New Zealand via Tonga and Samoa,
instead OF gong 70 Samoa hfst, which
would have been a more direct route. /
spent most Of the day perusing literature
ON NH and writing. also paid another
visit to the Fiiian quarters occupied by
native officers and employees OF the
government, where had been once be-
lore and renewed my acquaintance with
some of the leading chiefs and promi.
nent men to whom briefly explained
the principles oi the Gospel as we be-
leyed them. especially interested my.
sell In Kadava Lew, the grandson OF
king Hakobau, previously mentioned,
who promised me that II any OF our
Elders should be sent 10 Fiii, ho would
be kind TO them and endeavor to pave
the way for them to the native popula
tion. 1he white inhabitants ia suva as
n rule are not religiously inclined like
the whites in Honolulu, their sole Object
In life seems TO be wealth Of this world
nor can give them credit Tor much
hospitality. ...
In perusing a Handbook on FIJI
published by the government, ] find thai
The Fijian Archipelago was discovered
on the sth Of March, Io45, by Abel Jan
sen Tasman, who, however, does moi
appear to have found anchorage. Nor,
than century later Captain Cook
sighted the southeastern part OF the
group. lie was followed by Captain
Bigh. who passed through the group 10
the Bounty's launch Q7Sg, aud Captain
Wilson, OF the Duff, In 1871.
Il Is possible that some Of the naviga'
tors Of the seventeenth century, who
sailed from South America and were
never heard Of again, may have visited
the group, and during the eighteenth
century there must have been occasiona
intercourse between the natives and HI,
Spanish; but the islands remained
practically unknown until 1891, when
party OF escaped convicts from New
South Wales settled down among Oh,
natives. These were followed by ira
ders, In 1895, a small settlement o
whites was established at Levuka on The
island OF Ovalau; and Others settle,
down among the natives In various part
OF the group. In 1855, the American
government having passed a claim fol
10000 against the chief Cakobau
(Thakombau,) which he was quite un
able to meet and the justice OF which
he never admitted the leading chief
offered to cede the Islands to England
on condition that the claim should b,
satisfied The commissioners reported
unlavorably, and the offer was refuse,
(Is6I.) In 1871 a Constitutional Govern
ment was established by the Europeans
Tor the Kingdom OF Fiji" under Ca
kptyu as lstnIf hat 10 hrNEa Naun i,