Word: melanesia
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...same goes for Melanesia, but the Micheners add a practical if: "If we could earn some income, have screening, some kind of lighting system and some native boys willing to work for a decent wage...
...piano's a piano, a haircut's a haircut and organized charity is a vast, competitive business. To a million or more natives of Melanesia in the South Pacific, a piano is a big-fellow-bockiss-you-fight- him-teeth-belong-im-now-bockiss-he-cry. A Melanesian haircut is cut-im-grass-belong-head-belong-me. The only way most Melanesians can communicate with each other or with white men is by a bastard mixture of French, German, English, tribal dialects and baby-talk called pidgin. But when trouble strikes in Melanesia, pidgin is all that...
...oldest operations in medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...
...claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
...Scattered through the great islands of Indonesia and Melanesia were 300,000 enemy troops, some already heavily engaged by the Australians, some just trying to live. It was a question how clearly the voice of surrender would be heard on the jungled slopes of the Prince Alexander Range in New Guinea, or on the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul...