Pacific

Islands

Monthly

OCTOB ElfgS.9sB

Vol. Xxix. No. 3

Established 1930

i [Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney for transmission by post as a newspaper]

EAST MEETS THE SOUTH: For the visitor to Fiji, there is perhaps not a stranger spectacle to be seen than the one which surrounds the Indian religious fire-walking ceremonies held about August each year. Fiji-born Indians, like this young man, walk the hot coals without apparent hurt, and allow metal skewers to be thrust through their bodies without drawing blood One of the skewers above goes through both cheeks.

The photo was taken in Suva for "RIM" by G. Winkelkoetter.