The Journal of Pacific History serves historians, prehistorians, anthropologists and others interested in the study of mankind in the Pacific Islands (including Hawaii and New Guinea), and is concerned generally with political, economic, religious and cultural factors affecting human presence there. It publishes articles, annotated previously unpublished manuscripts, notes on source material and comment on current affairs. It also welcomes articles on other geographical regions, such as Africa and Southeast Asia, or of a theoretical character, where these are concerned with problems of significance in the Pacific. The Journal of Pacific History is currently noted in the following: Abstracts in Anthropology, Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), Australasian Religion Index, Combined Retrospective Index Sets (CRIS), and Historical Abstracts.The Journal of Pacific History
EDITORS
Brij V. Lal and Hank Nelson
both at the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University, Canberra
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Jennifer Terrell , Australian National University, Australia
POLITICAL CHRONICLES EDITOR
Deryck Scarr, Australia
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Chris Ballard, Australian National University, Australia
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS EDITOR
Neil Gunson, Australian National University, Australia
EDITORIAL BOARD
Donald Denoon, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University, Canberra
Stewart Firth, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Peter Hempenstall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
K.R. Howe, Massey University, New Zealand
Margaret Jolly, Australian National University, Australia
Robert Langdon, Australian National University, Australia
Clive Moore, University of Queensland, Australia
Sandra Tarte, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
CORRESPONDENTS
Judith A. Bennett, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ian Campbell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Ben Finney, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Roger Green, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Francis X. Hezel, Micronesian Seminar, Pohnpei
Barrie Macdonald, Massey University, New Zealand
Colin Newbury, University of Oxford, UK
Michel Panoff, Société des Océanistes, Paris, France
John Waiko, Papua New Guinea National Parliament
John Young, Tasmania
Abstracting and Indexing Services
Subscriptions
Volume 34, 1999, 3 issues. ISSN 0022-3344.
Institutional rate: £108.00; North America US$158.00; Australasia AU$118.00
Personal rate: £36.00; North America US$50.00; Australasia AU$44.00