 Due to the high cost of returning at their own expense, most indentured immigrants returning to India left Fiji around ten to twelve years after arrival.Indeed, just over twelve years passed between the voyage of the first ship carrying indentured Indians to Fiji (the "Leonidas", in 1879) and the first ship to take Indians back (the "British Peer", in 1892).Given the steady influx of ships carrying indentured Indians to Fiji up until 1916, repatriated Indians generally boarded these same ships on their return voyage.