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GIANT RACES STILL EXIST IN THE _ these Giants, the villages closest to SOLOMON ISLANDS the mountain, where they are also seen regularly, is a good starting by Marius Boirayon © 2003, 2009 point. But that is not required, because they are all over the place cience is a progression of and are seen on a daily basis G piscovees and this is definitely somewhere on the island. one of the bigger ones that we To my understanding, there are will have for a while. I'll get into some three different species or types of facts about the Giants of the Solomon these Giants. The larger and more Islands by using the Giants of commonly seen are over 10 feet Guadalcanal first as an example. over three metres] tall, but I have The Giants of Guadalcanal live come across numerous islander inside the huge tropical rainforested accounts with evidence which mountain ranges of Guadalcanal. supports that they grow much taller They have vast cave systems running than that. These Giants have very the length of the entire island. ong brown or reddish hair, and have come across many Guadalcanal _ when they want to have a good look people who believe these Giants can at you they pull it aside from their go from east to west through these face with one hand. They have a cave systems without seeing the protruding double eyebrow, bulging light of day, and many believe that red eyeballs, a flat nose and a wide- their population numbers in the gapped mouth. From the large hairy thousands. ype, they range down in size with The Guadalcanal Islanders also lessening amounts of body hair. believe there is a huge city of them The smaller versions, although underneath the big mountains of the bigger than normal human beings, island. Mount Tatuva is definitely are like wild men living in the jungle one of this city's main entrances; and are not as hairy as the big ones. and if anyone ever wished to film This is the way the Guadalcanal Islanders describe them. Invariably when they see these small Giant, half-human people, they make efforts to kill them. These smaller versions are lower down in the Giants’ social order, living predominately outside their cave systems in the jungle, although all hree types are found in the island's jungle. I must point out that the Solomon slanders don't understand that the Giants are something big to the rest of the world. Whether by intentional design or not, it is appropriate that he Solomon Islands’ slogan is "The Place That Time Forgot". Guadalcanal is rich in gold—a fact hat the Europeans discovered centuries ago. Thirty years ago, various gold mining companies started negotiating with the raditional 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 hree per cent deal for the indigenous people. GIANT RACES STILL EXIST IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS JUNE — JULY 2009 NEXUS ¢ 65 by Marius Boirayon © 2003, 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com