Know, then, that among this people there is great reverence for the growing of hair, and he that is hairiest is honoured most, wherefore are barbers creatures of especial abhorrence, and of a surety flourish not.
"The Shaving of Shagpat, Complete"
George Meredith
The provincial distribution in Fiji follows that of face hair: the interior groups are hairiest and the eastern people least so.
"A Racial Study of the Fijians"
Norman E. Gabel