. The new New Guinea. ow it could be done. It was near East Cape, not far from the DEntre-casteaux Islands, that the schooner had come to DEntrecast-eaux, like the Louisiades, would beregarded as a group of considerable importance if theywere situated anywhere else than off the end of thisgreat island-continent. Normandy is seven or eighttimes as big as Malta. Ferguson would make nearlyfour of the Isle of Man, and there are others in thegroup by no means negligible in size. But Papuadoes not trouble very much about them, nor about theBouvonloirs, the Lusangays, the Laughlins, and oth
. The new New Guinea. ow it could be done. It was near East Cape, not far from the DEntre-casteaux Islands, that the schooner had come to DEntrecast-eaux, like the Louisiades, would beregarded as a group of considerable importance if theywere situated anywhere else than off the end of thisgreat island-continent. Normandy is seven or eighttimes as big as Malta. Ferguson would make nearlyfour of the Isle of Man, and there are others in thegroup by no means negligible in size. But Papuadoes not trouble very much about them, nor about theBouvonloirs, the Lusangays, the Laughlins, and othermiscellaneous groups scattered here and there. TheTrobriands and the Woodlarks, on the contrary, aremuch thought of; one has pearls and the other gold,and that is something worth talking about. We started out from Samarai on a squally, windyday, and made our way through China Straits outamong the DEntrecasteaux. Very beautiful is the scenery in this remote cornerof Papua—green, forest-clad mountains rising steeply. SALVAGE 275 from the stormy edge of the sea ; blue vaporouspeaks, four to seven thousand feet in height, soaringaway into heaven beyond. There are many islands,too, each exquisite enough to make the beauty ofmiles of coast-line, were it set by itself. But thewind and the rain, and the ceaseless squalls, throughwhich the ship plunged and squattered in her ownviolent way, veiled most of these beauties in drivingfolds of mist. The wreck was sighted late in the day—a decent little schooner, lying comfortably on a reefin a sheltered bay, within a cables length of tried to tow her off, but she sank in deep water,and her latter state seemed worse than her first. Theship could not stay to make any more attempts atrescue, but it was arranged that the unlucky schoonerwas to be refloated—with cocoanuts !—by men sentout from Sumarai, and we went on our way anyone, outside of Papua the Peculiar, ever hearof filling the hold of a vessel with unhusked co
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