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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VII, 16 August 1902, Page 407

The Fijian Contingent visited the Zoo in London, and were much delighted with the menagerie. Two of the soldiers ran up to two camels, and, after getting astride of them, rode to the terrace, where the remaining soldiers grouped themselves in front of the camels, after which a photograph was taken. An amusing incident is narrated in connection with the Fijians when they were marching through the streets to the Queen’s review of the colonials. It illustrates dt-lightfuly the different points of view of different races. The road was lined by the Guards in their heavy bearskins, and while the spectators and the Empire’s show soldiers were highly amused at the peculiar coiffures of the Fijians, the latter were noticed to be intensely tickled by ana calling one another’s attention to the absurdity of the bearskins, which doubtless they took for a new form of hair-dressing.