Gordon Cumming, C.F. - At Home In Fiji. Fourth Edition Complete In One Voloume.

Edinburgh-London, William Blacksood and Sons, 1882. Small stout 8°., original cloth. Covertitles and a large illustration of a Cannibal fork tooled on both covers. (x), 365pp. Frontispiece and 3 captioned monochrome plates, lithographed fold. map of the Fiji Group at rear, coloured in outlines from surveys by Captain Denham R.N. with additions from Capt. C. Wilkes U.S.N., appendix, explanation to the illustration of a Cannibal Fork on covers printed on verso of list of plates, 23pp. of publ. list, table of contents. Rather detailed observations on the Colony of Fiji: geography and climate, physical features, tribes and tribalism, cannibalism, progress of civilization and missionary labour, means of subsistence, life-cycle, including a chapter on Fijian folklorelegend of the rat and cuttle fish, Serpent worship, sacred stones, mythology and witchcraft. Good to very good untrimmed copy in orig. publ. cloth. (title page foxed, spine ends with some wear).