Word: melanesian
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...were made by Francis Nkrumah, a Gold Coast native, now a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Biggest problem was finding someone who could speak Madagascar's Hova language. Lieut. Smith searched up & down the land before he finally discovered a Harlem cook who was three-quarters Melanesian, one-quarter Polynesian. He was married to a Jamaican Negro. They courted in French; now from Smith's records she is learning Hova...
...blow was struck up from Down Under at the exotic Melanesian land of the Solomon Islands, a fringe of volcanic peaks strung for 600 miles across the northern end of the Coral Sea, 900 miles from Australia's coast (see map). It was no mere raid. It was an attack in force. The Navy was out to take the Solomons from the Jap-and with them the threat they held to the supply line from the U.S. to Australia, and to Australia itself...
...great is Bishop Wade's influence in the Solomon Islands (which string out 1,600 miles just east of New Guinea) that their Melanesian natives (see cut) are known far & wide as his "Black Irish...
...there are only 5,000 troops, French and Senegalese, with a sprinkling of natives. Of the 40,000 whites, most of the small fry are anti-Vichy; most of the Government, Army and other important people are pro-Vichy. Despite the nearness of Africa, the Malagasy are Oceanic (Polynesian, Melanesian, Indonesian) in origin, language and culture...
...Adventist minister. Kata Ragoso helped the white men convert 5,000 of the islanders, at one time brought all 400 inhabitants of one island to Christ. Kata Ragoso learned how to run a printing press and, with a cousin, made the first translation of the New Testament in the Melanesian language his people speak...