The Solomon Islands.
The above islands form an archipelago in the western Pacific, whose southern members form a British protectorate (1893), and the northern a German one (1894). The islands lie 500 miles east of New Guinea, and stretch 600 miles south-east in two parallel chains. They have a total area of 16,927 square miles, 8354 being British and 8573 German. They are nearly all volcanic and are densely wooded to the highest summits, 10,000 feet in some places. There is an extraordinarily heavy rainfall, estimated at 500 inches on the mountains, and 150 on the coasts. The temperature ranges from 75 to 95 degrees. The people, 176,000 Papuans or Melanesians, are divided into a great number of tribes, constantly at war with one another. They are cruel and savage cannibals, and they wear little or no clothing, and tattoo their bodies.
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Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1898, Page 3
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142The Solomon Islands. Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1898, Page 3
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