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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1963Vol. 34, No. 3

Manus Island!

p. 85 · Read in the full issue

Monkeys Found On

A group of women in the Manus District of Papua-New Guinea were recently surprised to see monkeys in the trees around them while hunting for crabs among mangroves. The women are from Papitalai village in the north-east area of Manus Island.

Agriculture officers in Rabaul said later that people had also seen monkeys in other parts of the Terri tory.

Their explanation was that soldiers had brought them in during the war, but they did not say whether the soldiers were American, Australian or Japanese.