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AT the ordinary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, on Monday, Mr. C. M. Woodford read a paper on “Further Explorations of the Solomon Islands.” He has visited these islands three times, and in the present paper he described what he saw during his third visit, in 1888. He took up his residence in the small island of Gavotu, off the coast of Gola, or Florida Island, a place centrally situated for visiting Ysabel, Guadalcanar, and other islands. He stayed with a trader named Lars Nielson, who had since been killed and eaten by the natives, as had also three of his boys. Since last June no fewer than six white men had been murdered by the natives of the Solomon Group, out of a total white population estimated at about thirty. Mr. Woodford's principal object in his last journey was to identify the places visited by the Spanish Expedition under Mendana that discovered these islands in the year 1568. In this, he thought he might say, he had been entirely successful. The Spaniards related that when they were between Florida and Guadalcanar they passed an island in the centre of which was a burning volcano. This island was now conclusively identified with the Island of Savo. The lecture was illustrated with photographs of natives of Guadalcanar and other places, as well as specimens of rude architecture, by means of the dissolving-view apparatus.
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Geographical Notes. Nature 41, 403 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041403a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/041403a0