FIJIAN PROPHET
FAITH STILL HELD IN NAITALA’S WORDS FORESAW CONQUERORS From Our Oxen Correspondent SUVA, March 17. Interesting accounts have been published of Fiji’s greatest prophet, Naitala, who lived before the days of the first white men to visit this group. Naitala may be placed on a level with the New Zealand Maori prophets, Te Kooti, Te Whiti and Ratana. Naitala told the Fijians that theirislands would eventually be conquered by a new race of people with white skins. They would come in waqavanua (big as the land) vessels, Rater, they would come in ships with three masts, and, still later, in vessels bearing big bamboo sticks (funnels), belching smoke. According to Naitala’s prophecy. Portuguese vessels, the whalers and the traders of other European countries, and steamers came to Fiji. The prophet predicted that black people and theh yellow races would follow the white race. The older natives in Fiji believe in Naitala’s prophecies to this day.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 938, 3 April 1930, Page 12
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157FIJIAN PROPHET Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 938, 3 April 1930, Page 12
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