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Old Days In Fiji

Way back in December, 1963 (p. 77), we published an article by Captain Stan Brown, of Suva, about the visit to Fiji in 1840 of the United States Exploring Expedition, under Commodore Charles Wilkes. This article was of particular interest to Mr. C. L.

Legge, of the Department of Anthropology at the Chicago Natural History Museum, who has now sent us this photograph of a memorial to the men who died on that expedition in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One inscription re* cords that "Lieutenant Underwood and Midshipman Henry, fell by the hands of savages while promoting the cause of science and philan* thropy at Malolo, one of the Fiji Group of Islands, July 24, 1840."