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I then said farewell to Father Fox & the Sisters who are doing real good work - I collected a fern new to me on a bank outside their gates & made for my launch at 6 pm -
Father Fox can speak Fijian like a native - He learnt it in 3 amp; cd speak in public in 6 months - He travels & observes both by land & water - He tells me that his band of missioners stick to Whites & Fijians while a separate band of clergy & Schoolmasters all make a speciality of Hindustain & the lifting on to a higher plane of our Indian subjects in Suva & the adjacent islands -
After my strenuous aftn - I had a good dinner - Some bridge & some beer & then bed -
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