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.e interest of Queen Salote ing a study made of people ihabit her island kingdom, their vanishing customs, has i in an invitation to two travelled men, David Atten i and Geoff Mulligan, to tome weeks there, to make a of the group for BBC tele left London early in Sep nber with their film cameras the invitation of the Tongan ties and were in Fiji in mid ber. They planned to go on aalofa by the October Tofua.

Tonga they will travel on y the peoples of some of the sian groups, and they expect rn to England shortly before las. the South Seas there are /ho still live simply and close ire,” Attenborough said he aving London. “In another rs there may not be any ho has had a first-hand ex e of their way of life, and ill be our chance to get a of it.”

Wide Experience

i Attenborough is already known for his books and the films he has brought back past few years of wild life some live specimens—from Leone, British Guiana, Indo- New Guinea, Paraguay and ountries. this time the main purpose journey is to study people. same time he is hardly to miss an opportunity of any interesting animals he me across.

Taman Geoff Mulligan is less lown, although he was one :eam that worked on a recent V programme on the Kariba i Rhodesia. ips while in Tonga they will ne to film the local method ching shark from canoes, i coconut rattle and a noose led through a block of wood, r the same system is used -and has been used for es, according to the early an navigators—at the Tanga i Islands and along the of northern New Ireland, a native of one of the 5 on the Bulominski Road n Namatanai and Kavieng y put on a demonstration for photograph.—LP.