Author: LUCAS, Dr T.P. [Thomas Pennington].
Title: Cries From Fiji and Sighings From the South Seas. 'Crush out the British Slave Trade' ... a review of the social, political, and religious relations of the Fijians .. policy of the English Government .. white settlers; the labour traffic.
Description: Melbourne, Dunn [1885]. Octavo publisher's cloth; 124pp & errata slip. An excellent copy. ¶ 'England is once more a slave-holding nation!' A first hand account of investigations in Fiji and a savage attack on the officialdom of Fiji, the treatment of the Fijians, and the labour trade, with a comparative table of practices between the old slave trade and labour traffic customs. Lucas, emigre medico, reformer and later crackpot, invented the eponymous pawpaw ointment and wrote a pair of utopian novels, set in a future Brisbane, that I've never seen and would like to find.

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