Episode 3 of 3

Quarantine and Survivors

When: 14 May to 9 August 1879
Where: Yanuca Lailai
Part of: First Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas

Armed guards prevented contact with new arrivals, and disease reduced the number of survivors to 463.

Armed guards were placed in the narrow passage between Levuka and Yanuca Lailai to prevent contact with the new arrivals. Fifteen more of the new arrivals died on the island due to dysentery, diarrhoea and typhoid, leaving only 463 survivors.

Sources

Leonidas (ship) Wikipedia, revision of 2025-06-15

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