An Internee's Studies

MR. GEORGE BOGESE, who was a Native Medical Practitioner in the Solomon Islands, but who is now in an Internment camp in Australia, writes to say that he is filling in his time by compiling anthropological data about his birthplace—the Bogutu district. Santa Isabel, BSI. He is describing the his tory of the people, their clan system, their songs, dances and folk lore, their method of using herbs in the treatment of diseases, and he recounts the story of an extinct tribe, the Mogo. He is also compiling a Bogutu-English dictionary.