Rock-Carvings From Fiji

THE accompanying picture is a photo graph of rubbings of the various script found recently by Mr. A. J. Vogan on ruins of an old wall, fencing-in what probably was a sanctuary many hundreds of years ago, at Duk-ni-ba, Vanua Levu.

Fiji.

“This name,” writes Mr. Vogan, “means in our language ‘Behind the Fence,’ and thus carries on to our day the evidence of the fallen stones them

selves.

“The deeply cut crypto glyphs were recognised by the late L. T. Griffin, of the Auckland Institute and Museum, whose Egyptology had received world recog nition, to be similar to those of the Yasawa temple-carv ings, which the P.I.M. illus trated three years ago, and to be of Asian origin. French friends recognise them as similar to temple markings in Indo-Chine; and I am in cor respondence with Dr. Tatsuzo Torii, the foremost Japanese archaeologist, as they appear to be similar to script found in Bolivia, South America.

“I should be very glad if you would find space for these ancient script, as some of your Islands readers may have come across similar ones, and may see their way to assist in elucidating the old track of the early Asian settlers, traders, or explorers across the Pacific. We have traced them from Java, via New Cale donia, to Fiji, New Zealand, and Aus tralia’s east coast.”