A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . HLMAIJADA. THE TERRITORY OF PAPUA 215 by a person encumbered with European clothing, par-ticularly boots, is like matrimony: not to be enterprised,nor taken in hand unadvisedly or lightly . Realizing the seriousness of the undertaking, I pickedmy way with extreme caution. When I became extrasuspicious of a sliding plank, or maybe a space with noplank at all, I sank my pride, and accepted the assistanceof a guiding hand until I reached a united company ofplanks, on which I felt I could balance myself with safety. The almost amphibious little piccan
A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . HLMAIJADA. THE TERRITORY OF PAPUA 215 by a person encumbered with European clothing, par-ticularly boots, is like matrimony: not to be enterprised,nor taken in hand unadvisedly or lightly . Realizing the seriousness of the undertaking, I pickedmy way with extreme caution. When I became extrasuspicious of a sliding plank, or maybe a space with noplank at all, I sank my pride, and accepted the assistanceof a guiding hand until I reached a united company ofplanks, on which I felt I could balance myself with safety. The almost amphibious little piccaninnies—and thereare a great many of them—floundered about in the waterlike porpoises. They would drop from their back doorsor front windows, or quite likely from a chance intersticein the dining-room floor, or in fact from wherever theyhappened to be ; and then they would swim in and out amongthe crazy and tipsy-looking piles supporting their homes. Tiring of this they would climb like monkeys up thenearest pole, and we had a very wet and shining li
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