ABSTRACT
The Fijian aspect of the racial problem, within the islands, is clearly the most important of all because with remarkable wisdom and foresight the chiefs, under Cakobau, voluntarily claimed the protection of Queen Victoria at a time when the sudden inrush of Western forces had become too strong for them. An impressive monument of this fact still exists at the centre of the Government Offices, which every official passes daily. Another is to be seen in Levuka on the spot where the treaty was signed.
