Couple says Fijian visit will prove friend wrong

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Couple says Fijian visit will prove friend wrong

A FEW years ago Hal Levine’s friend wrote a book that cannibalism did not exist and that it was just made-up stories.

Now with the evidence that he has he plans to prove his friend wrong.

Mr Levine and wife Marlene were among 1800 tourists who disembarked from the Pacific Pearl cruise liner that berthed at the Kings Wharf yesterday (Saturday).

This newspaper caught up with the couple of 45 years who were admiring the historical and cultural collections at the Fiji Museum.

Mr Levine, who is a lecturer in anthropology at Victoria Univeristy in Wellington, said Fiji’s culture and relationship with other Pacific Islands was well represented.

He spoke of meeting his friend and telling him about his visit to Fiji.

“I have not seen him in a while. It will be not respectful for me sending it to him, but I want to send him the photographs.

“It’s sort of rubbing his face in it and to know that you have to be wrong sometime,” he said.

For Mrs Levine while this was her second visit to Fiji, she did not visit the museum — situated along Cakobau Rd — in her first visit. “My husband came to Fiji a while back and he got to see this museum and he told me how amazing it was, so the first thing we are doing in Suva is come to this museum. It was just so amazing how my husband described it.”

The ship will be at Port Denarau today (Sunday) before heading to Noumea, New Caledonia.