Life in Feejee
	Quantity in Basket: none Code: BC00000201 Price: $25.00 Author: By a Lady (Mary Wallis) Country: Fiji Date Published: 2010 Publisher: Fiji Museum Pages: 422 Hardback: Yes Paperback: Yes Illustrated: No Colour: No
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Mary Davis Wallis, our mysterious "Lady", was married to Captain Benjamin Wallis of Salem, Massachusetts. During the 'forties and early 'fifties of last century this florid, forceful Yankee captain dominated the dangerous but lucrative Fiji-Manila trade in beach-de-mer for S. Chamberlain & Co. of Salem. He played a central role i Fiji history through his dealings with high Fijian chiefs. Fortunately form posterity but to the wonder of his fellow trading captains and frustration of his crew, Captain Wallis took his piously eccentric wife voyaging to the Fiji's from 1844-1849. Here is Mary Wallis lively, decidedly feminist, opinionated yet humorous account of five years wondering about the islands aboard the bark "Zotoff". During that time she saw much at first hand, and she has left her indelible mark on Fiji in the popular girl's names, Walesi and Merewalesi.