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of Ratu Vueti's three sons. They became the three
Tokatoka of Vuaniivi, Nacokadi and Nadruguca, and were the first to settle in Kubuna. Ratu Vueti was buried there, in a mound known as Tabukasivi, and was worshiped in the form of a serpent. After his death, a division arose over the installation of a
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Gonesau n. chiefly title, centred in Ra province in the area of
Nakorotubu. There is confusion and dispute as to the origin and lineage associated with this title. There is no tradition of a formal installation ceremony. Close connection to super-tribe Dewala and the early history of Bau Island. The
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Although all groups acknowledged the Roko Tui Bau as paramount, they were independent due to geographic separation. The Roko Tui Bau settled on the island of
Ulunivuaka, which was already home to the Butoni and Levuka peoples. The island was renamed Bau, in honour of the Roko Tui Bau. The Vusaratu
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origin has a very close relationship with Bau. Curiously, this title has no extensive territory and no direct control over any extensive tribe. N. L. C. official report lists the title as Na Sau. Fijian–English
Dictionary: with notes on Fijian culture and natural history. Ronald Gatty.
656:. He was accompanied by Degei who settled at Nakauvadra. This whole movement introduced the notions of aristocratic chiefs, a foreign notion to earlier immigrants. Fijian–English Dictionary: with notes on Fijian culture and natural history-Ronald Gatty. Suva,Fiji, pg 149, 2009.
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Among them were the descendants of Koya Na Sau, the eldest son of Tui
Waicala-na-vanua I's 11 children, from whom the first Roko Tui Bau derived. He was known as Ratu Vueti, the son of Ratu Vaula, the son of Ratu Vula (or Ra-Vula) from
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and then in Nayavu (second time). From there, they split. One group left Nayavu to settle on the Kaba peninsula (adopting the name Tui Kaba); the second group, known as the
Vunivalu, continued to Viria before ending up in Ovea.
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Nailatikau was succeeded by Banuve, who reclaimed wide areas of the adjacent reef flats and built stone docks and sea walls during his 30 years as
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Lutunasobasoba, a legendary chief who may have led a migration to Fiji during the 1500s and landed at Vuda (known as the First
Landing). In fact, he was preceded by
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Fiji's Heritage a history of Fiji by Kim Gravelle reprinted under its new name in 2000 it was originally published as Fiji Times a history of Fiji in 1979.
903:, the book The Pacific Way – A Memoir by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara published by the University of Hawaii press Honolulu refers to the ‘Tukutuku Raraba’ as the
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was not always the senior chieftain in Kubuna and Bau; the title was considered subordinate to the Roko Tui Bau. Power struggles resulted in Vunivalu
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successor to Vueti. A new Roko Tui Bau, Ratu Serumataidrau, was selected from the senior Vuaniivi line.
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