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Dec 14, 2022 · Updated: March 22, 2024. FJ. Charlie Savage had to be one of the most well-known Europeans to have stepped foot on the islands of Fiji. In the early 1900s, many vessels from around the world converged on the islands to partake in the very lucrative sandalwood industry that was taking shape.
Jan 11, 2015 · “Charlie Savage, ought to rank deservedly high among the able men who tempted fortune in the South Seas,” was historian and Fiji Museum’s first curator Colman Wall’s verdict on the man. Wall wrote that in ceremonies after the battle for Verata, Savage reportedly walked out of the burekalou while kava was being prepared, “a thing that ...
Aug 23, 2017 · Books. Koroi: The Story of Charlie Savage [Kalle Svensson] Kalle Svensson, a seaman from Udvalle in Sweden, is shipwrecked in the "Feejees". His wits , his skill with a musket and his ambition...
With the aid of Charlie Savage, who brought firearms to Bau, opportunities for new wealth and power, symbolized by the acquisition of muskets, intensified political rivalries and hastened the rise of the Kingdom of Bau, ruled by Naulivou as Vunivalu and then by his nephew Cakobau. By the 1850s Bau dominated western Fiji.
Supplied with weapons by Swedish mercenary Charlie Savage, Ratu Tanoa Visawaqa, the Vunivalu (a chiefly title meaning Warlord, often translated also as Paramount Chief) of Bau Island, defeated the much larger Burebasaga Confederacy and succeeded in subduing much of western Fiji.
Charles or Charlie Savage may refer to: People. Charles Savage (banker) (fl. 1740s), governor of the Bank of England, 1745–1747; Charles Savage (beachcomber) (died 1813), sailor and beachcomber known for his exploits on the islands of Fiji; Charles Roscoe Savage (1832–1909), British-born landscape and portrait photographer
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Onboard this ship was the usual rabble of European sailors and beachcombers, but what made it different was $40,000 worth of Spanish silver coins; the Chinese and a kaivalagi named Charlie Savage. Shipwrecks were common in the 19th century, but the Eliza brought something to the then Bau chief, Ratu Naulivou, that none of his enemies was yet to ...
