Wednesday, September 11, 1895. Made port at Suva, the capital of the Fiji Islands.. After dinner I found in the billiard-room a resident whom I had known somewhere else in the world, and presently made some new friends and drove with them out into the country to visit his Excellency the head of the State.   Fiji's last king ceded the islands to Britain, 10 October 1874, in order to prevent an American occupation.