During Zaca’s maiden voyage in 1930, Templeton Crocker met
S.M. Lambert in Fiji. Lambert, a doctor in tropical medicine
for the Rockefeller
Foundation, entertained Crocker with tales of isolated and
unexplored regions in the Solomon Islands. There, said Lambert, lived
a tribe of Polynesians
who, having had no contact with white men, were twenty thousand
years
behind modern man and the only relics of a prehistoric civilization.
Traditional
song by Cumming Tepuke & Maui Kaitu'u - Rennell Island June 2001
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