. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. jVcu' (tit I Hi'a I ^iiiiigi 55 witli tlie first row of aerial dwellings. Il must be a ticklish thing to walk to eliiireh b>' such a road. There is no coioiuuiiication between the other rows except by canoes or swinmiitig. We entereefore llieni. The cliurch, like all other dwellings at Kaili, is a frail construction of sticks, sides and roof thatched with, sago palni leaf. It is spacious, !»ul bus ueithcT pulpit nor seats. As we paced up and down inside, it getith' swayed t
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. jVcu' (tit I Hi'a I ^iiiiigi 55 witli tlie first row of aerial dwellings. Il must be a ticklish thing to walk to eliiireh b>' such a road. There is no coioiuuiiication between the other rows except by canoes or swinmiitig. We entereefore llieni. The cliurch, like all other dwellings at Kaili, is a frail construction of sticks, sides and roof thatched with, sago palni leaf. It is spacious, !»ul bus ueithcT pulpit nor seats. As we paced up and down inside, it getith' swayed to aiu! fro in the l) These seawillages liave oiie ol)vious advantage over those bnih: ashore tliey are free from !nos<|Uttoes. Passing on our way eastward, we saw a nn!nl)er of old piles, indieatiug llie original .site of Kaili before they were driven away by the Manukolo. I/ater on we ancliored at tlie village of Kapa- kapa, consisting in truth of two hamlets half a mile apart, thirty-lliree miles east of Port This is uiy third Swissdakedike village in New Guinea. It lias a populaticm of 450. loanc, a native of Savage' Island ( Nine), is tlieir teacher. 1 was struck with a lint standing ai>art from all otliers iti tlie middle of the bay, and learned tliat it was built by a man who had quarrelled with all his fiieutls! Fowls and bogs are fed and evidently thrive, in these remarkable (hvellings. Chtr boat was ludled between the rows of dwellings, Mr. Chahuers occasionally throwing a liamlful of small pieces oJ tobacco into the sea. Men, wcmien atid cliildreu all dived ihjwii for that coveted i>rize, and in a friendly way contended for it. After dark on the same eventful , Captain Liljehlad succeeded in making Hula, a distance of fiftv4wo miles from Fort Moresby. Hula, like Tupuselei, Kaili, ami Kapakapa, is built in the sea. Jt cmitains about (.00 peopkv With our clerical friend I went in a canoe, through tliis long village, or rather two villages.
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