120 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
Seas,’’ this same thing is happening everywhere in Polynesia, and 
it seems evident that throughout that vast area the native races 
are doomed to extinction, although O’Brien seems to think the 
white man the guilty party. In Fiji, however, it seems to me that 
the Indians will be the cause of the obliteration of the native race. 
I believe, moreover, that the Colonial Government is anxious to 
save the Fijians from this impending fate but that it will find the 
task a difficult if not an impossible one. 
So far as we could discover there were no Americans in Fiji 
except a dentist in Suva, nor was there an American consular 
officer of any kind, a fact that eventually made trouble for us. 
