ABSTRACT
Few people have ever worked harder than the Indian cultivators, who have now entirely superseded the Europeans. Their habits of thrift, industry, and perseverance have in the end prevailed. They are recognized all over the colony. What is more remarkable still, these great qualities have begun to tell upon the Fijians and have created in them a desire to cultivate sugar on their own account. Here is a life and death matter for the whole Fijian people. The importance of the issue can hardly be over-estimated. For even after the magnificent moral start which they have made, under the impulse of their Christian religion, the Fijian race may still relapse if ever circumstances go against them. Of all the islanders in the South Pacific, the Fijian has shown, along with the Maori, the greatest capacity for progress and enlightenment, together with intellectual ability of no mean order.
