Rapa Nui Journal Volume 9 Issue 3

Ancient Egyptian Survivals in the Pacific. by R.A. Jairazbhoy, 1990. Karnak House, Billing & Sons Ltd., Worcester, England. 78 pages, Black and white drawings and a 3 photos. ISBN 0-907015-49-2.

Review by Georgia Lee

The Maui Handbook: Including Molokai and Lanai by J. D. Bisignani. 1995. Fourth Edition, Moon Publications, Chico, Calif. 393 pages, 36 maps, drawings photographs (some in color). ISBN 56691-057-9. Price: $14.95. Phone: (800) 345-5473.

Review by Kay Kenady Sanger, Calabasas, California

In July of this ear. a month-long project to assess changes in the condition of some of the island's petroglyph sites was undertaken by Antoinelle Padgett and Georgia Lee, under Ole auspices of the University of California. Berkeley. University Research Expeditions Program (UREP). The study was based on a series of documentation programs that began in 1981 and resulted in the accumulation of slides, photographs, drawings and field notes (Lee 1992).

What's New in Polynesia

International News

What's New in Hanga Roa

At the turn of the century, sometime between 1898 and 1906, the Rector of Drummondville, a small town southwest of Quebec, penned the following poem (Smith 1960:91):

The Dutch-language narratives of Jacob Roggeveen's voyage to the Pacific in 1722 when Easter Island was discovered were given exhaustive treatment in Herbert von Saher's article 'Roggeveen and Boumann: an inventory of all the narratives' (RNJ 7(4):77-82). However, a few points about English-language versions of those same narratives still need to be made to put Captain Cook's visit to Easter Island in 1774 in its historical perspective.

In April 1777. when Captain Cook was sailing northeastward from New Zealand on his third Pacific voyage. he came upon isolated. uninhabited Palmerston Island, an atoll. Which he had discovered and named on his previous voyage. Being urgently in need of fodder for the cattle in his two ships, he sent four boats ashore to see what they could get. When they returned with plenty of 'scurvy grass', young coconuts and pandanus palms, Cook decided to remain at the island for a couple of days to get a good supply of coconuts for his men.