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Last week, radio and cable on the Fiji Islands, 2,500 miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...
Delton Conly, according to Fiji officials, had apparently died soon after he had scrawled his signature. Eve had died just a day or two before the sea washed the Wing On up on Vanua Levu. The rest of the story of the 100-day adventure was locked behind the swollen lips of Fern Thompson, who, in critical condition, was carried delirious to an island hospital...
...Reader Bealer and 176,397 Fiji Islanders (82,826 Fijis, 89,333 Indians, 4,238 Europeans), apologies...
Encyclopaedia Britannica book of the year 1939: "Fiji . . . population...
TIME, Sept. 11, p. 27, col. i: "The Fiji Islands...