Henderson Island
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Mystery Of Skeletons At
Suva, Nov. 6
Henderson island, no miles from Pitcairn, was twice visited by the Suva-based New Zealand schooner Huia during a 6,000-mile trading cruise.
After returning to Suva, the Huia left for Auckland on November 2 and will make several trans Tasman trips before returning to the tropics at the end of the hurricane season.
Mr. N. W. Thomas, owner of the Huia, said that at uninhabited Henderson
(where the Pitcairn Islanders go for supplies of coconuts and miro timber) the skeleton of a powerfully-built man had been found half in and half out of a shallow cave. Later, Captain J. Webster, Marine Superintendent, Western Pacific High Commission, said he had seen at least eight skulls, and a number of other human bones in a cave near that where Mr. Thomas had found the complete skeleton.
The skeletons appeared to be of con siderable age and, beyond the obvious theory that they are the remains of survivors of some forgotten shipwreck or shipwrecks, there is nothing to suggest how the Henderson Island victims arrived at the island or how they died.
A photograph, taken by Mr. Thomas, of the skeleton found at the entrance to a cave on seldom-visited Henderson Island.