. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. FIJIAN TEMPLE. XV. fc97 3 M THE INHABITANTS OF OCEANIA. natives to the negroes of Guinea. The Dntcli and British followed them ; „ . hut no settlement was made, largely owing: to the slaua;hterNew Guinea, p -i , ,. , . ^ -^ ° , °, 01 sailors by natives, and their consequent bad repute, blave hunts by Malays, ruthless slaughter by invading expeditions, and care-less infringeme
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. FIJIAN TEMPLE. XV. fc97 3 M THE INHABITANTS OF OCEANIA. natives to the negroes of Guinea. The Dntcli and British followed them ; „ . hut no settlement was made, largely owing: to the slaua;hterNew Guinea, p -i , ,. , . ^ -^ ° , °, 01 sailors by natives, and their consequent bad repute, blave hunts by Malays, ruthless slaughter by invading expeditions, and care-less infringement of native rights, combined to make the Papuans veryhostile to intruders. It was only in 1873 that the coast of the south-eastof the island was surve^^ed and maj^ped. Very slight explorations hadbeen attemj)ted until, in 1858, Mr, A. R. Wallace lived at Dorey, on thenorth coast, for over three months ; and in 1861 his assistant, Mr. C. AUen,penetrated twenty miles inland and stayed a month. In 1871, Miklucho-Macleay, a Russian naturalist, lived at Astrolabe Bay, on the north-east,for fifteen months, and since then, Beccari, DAlbertis, Meyer, and othershave made considerable explorations, and added greatly
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