Rotuma
p. 36 · Read in the full issue
I NOTICED your article in the August issue on “Isolated Rotuma”— that little island north of Fiji.
You may be interested to know that I correspond with a Rotuman, who was educated in Fiji, and is now a teacher in a native school there. He writes in warm praise of his home-land, which he seldom is able to visit, owing to its iso lation. He drew the attached map for me, from memory, and he sent me the follow ing details: “It is a little island, nine miles long, with eight islands surrounding the main island. The islands are surrounded by coral reefs. There are seven districts only. There are more than 30 motor cars.
The chief food is yams and dalo, and the chief product is copra. There are only a few Europeans there. It is a very beau tiful little island with white sand round the beaches. There are towns all round the island, and only a few mountains are in the centre. There are many beautiful flowers, ferns and trees in Rotuma. A Native Medical Practitioner is there—no
European doctor.”