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oN a ai GIANT RACES STILL EXIST IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS GIANT RACES STILL EXIST IN larger and more commonly seen are over THE SOLOMON ISLANDS 10 feet tall, but I have come across numer- by Marius Boirayon © 2003 ous islander accounts with evidence which supports that they grow much taller than cience is a progression of discoveries, that. These Giants have very long brown S and this is definitely one of the bigger _ or reddish hair, and when they want to have ones that we will have for a while. a good look at you they pull it aside from I'll get into some facts about the Giants of _ their face with one hand. They have a pro- the Solomon Islands by using the Giants of truding double eyebrow, bulging red eye- Guadalcanal first as an example. alls, a flat nose and a wide-gapped mouth. The Giants of Guadalcanal live inside the From the large hairy type, they range down huge tropical rainforest jungle mountain in size with lessening amounts of body ranges of Guadalcanal. They have vast hair. The smaller versions, although bigger cave systems running the length of the than normal human beings, are like wild entire island. I have come across many men living in the jungle and are not as Guadalcanal people who believe these hairy as the big ones. This is the way the Giants can go from east to west through Guadalcanal Islanders describe them. these cave systems without seeing the light Invariably when they see these small Giant, of day, and many believe that their popula- _half-human people, they make efforts to tion numbers in the thousands. ill them. These smaller versions are lower The Guadalcanal Islanders also believe down in the Giants' social order, living pre- there is a huge city of them underneath the dominately outside their cave systems in big mountains of the island. Mount Tatuva the jungle, although all three types are is definitely one of this city's main found in the island's jungle. entrances; and if anyone ever wished to I must point out that the Solomon film these Giants, the villages closest to the Islanders don't understand that the Giants mountain, where they are also seen are something big to the rest of the world. regularly, is a good starting point. But that Whether by intentional design or not, it is is not required, because they are all over appropriate that the Solomon Islands' slo- the place and are seen on a daily basis gan is "The Place That Time Forgot". somewhere on the island. Guadalcanal is rich in gold—a fact that To my understanding, there are three dif- the Europeans discovered centuries ago. ferent species or types of these Giants. The Thirty years ago, various gold mining companies started negotiating with the traditional landowners with memoranda of understanding in order to capitalise on this gold. A succession of failed attempts ollowed, until recent years when Ross Mining broke through with a 3% deal for the indigenous people. In 1998, at Gold Ridge in central north- ern Guadalcanal where the mine was being uilt, they got going with their bigger type of mining bulldozers pushing in roads and clearing the mine area. The mine borders the Giants' territory, and it would appear that the Giants are quite territorial. On one articular occasion, one of these huge bull- dozers broke down, with one of the pins on the blade attachment rendered useless. As it was late in the afternoon, they decided to drop the blade there and take the bulldozer ack to the workshop to do the repairs overnight so they could continue the next day. When they returned the next morning, the blade had disappeared. All the boys ecame confused. How could such a heavy object vanish? Mind you, we're talking about 10 tonnes plus! So they started scouting around in the bush and happened to notice gigantic footprints, around three eet in length, close by where they'd left the lade. They found the blade some 100 metres away on a small hill. From further ‘ootprint investigation, they deduced that NEXUS ¢ 61 by Marius Boirayon © 2003 AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com