AN INTERESTING JOURNEY.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15989, 25 August 1917, Page 8

AN INTERESTING JOURNEY.

PROFESSOR MACMILLAN BROWN'S TRAVELS. Professor Macmillan Brown has »e----turned to Christcliurch after a trip of a most interesting nature amongst the most easterly of tlie Pacific Islands, mostly those in French possession. After visiting several of the Society group he went south to Rapa and Tubnai, investigating and photographing the stone images which had never been subjected to the operation before. The l J rofessor . also obtained a number of fine photographs of the natives, both men and women. j Visits were paid by the Professor s party to the Gambier and Paumotu "roup • and then a return was made to Tahiti The United States Consul happened to be there at the time, and the French Governor made a good deal of his visitors, who were treated to a round of festivities, feted, and complimented as being representatives of France's Allies. A State processional kind of trip was made all round tne islands, which lasted for four davs, and the whole experience was decidedly exhilarating. , Professor Macmillan Brown also visited the Marquesas, which lie sai-1 proved the most interesting of all the islands, with fine stone temples and intelligent and interesting inhabitants. The Leeward Islands were also visited, and the Professor was enabled to carrv out a most valuahle series of original investigations and obtain a very fine series of photographs of the people and their ancient architecture.