ABSTRACT
What a difficult area to get about in the Fiji Islands are! I have just found this out afresh! An exceptionally heavy programme of visits and public meetings, from the moment of my arrival, proved a far greater strain on health and powers of endurance than I had anticipated when I started out on a tour round all the important centres. At last I had to succumb, and this experience has made me realize the exceptionally difficult conditions of tropical heat and moisture under which life is always being lived in the Islands, which are not far from the Equator, The distances, also, which seem so short on the map, involve a great deal of time spent in accomplishing one's purpose.
