Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 184
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[Page 184]
The Fijian physique is a very fine one - Their big mops of frizzled hair & their brown skins & their laughy jolly natures attract one very much - They have bad qualities – very cowardly I am informed – treacherous when they can do it – with impunity to their own skins – untidy unclean & destitute of thrift & progress - Their customs before we took charge were brutal in the extreme - There's such a lot of brown, black, yellow people here that I counted up one day how many whites & how many other colored people wd pass me in a given time - Anything between 20 - 30 dark men to 1 white was the ratio – fairly correct I fancy -
I saw also some good tennis – top of the second class is about the best here
The green sward of the cricket & tennis lawns looks very well in the foreground of a picture whose middle & back ground are terraced houses & villas with terra cotta roofs & a numerous medly of Mango, Palm & Chestnut & other foliage all growing in the gardens & on the slopes & setting off the houses strike>with by this green galaxy of vegetation -