. The new New Guinea. de to look round—all have a quaintexotic charm of their own, and an absolute fitnesswith their surroundings, sure to mark the memorydeeply. The street of Hanuabada is of white sandand gravel shaded by tall old palms that lean down-ward to the sea after the graceful fashion of theirrace, and make matchless pencillings of woven leavesand waving plumes across the pathways, when thesun is shining low among the black stilts of thehouses, and the girls are going down to the springwith their round brown water-pots poised in thecrook of their round brown arms, to get water for th
. The new New Guinea. de to look round—all have a quaintexotic charm of their own, and an absolute fitnesswith their surroundings, sure to mark the memorydeeply. The street of Hanuabada is of white sandand gravel shaded by tall old palms that lean down-ward to the sea after the graceful fashion of theirrace, and make matchless pencillings of woven leavesand waving plumes across the pathways, when thesun is shining low among the black stilts of thehouses, and the girls are going down to the springwith their round brown water-pots poised in thecrook of their round brown arms, to get water for theevening meal. It is a merry-looking village, this of are about two thousand people in it, and thenumber of small fat naked children climbing perilouslyup and down the ladders, or splashing under thehouses, seems to suggest that there is no diminution ofnumbers to be feared in this branch, at least, of the disappearing brown races. These Papuans are ofMotuan and Koitapuan race, a handsome and amiable. L. THE TKMPESTUOUS rKTTICOAT To face page 36. MOTUAN TRADING 37 type. They were never great fighters, and they denyhaving been cannibals at any time. Like all the otherinhabitants of sea-built villages, they adopted thatform of building to protect themselves as far aspossible against the attacks of the fiercer mountaintribes, who, until the coming of the white people,used to make constant raids upon the coast people of these villages originally lived a littleway from the coast, and supported themselves byhunting and gardening. It is scarcely credible, yettrue, that after a century or two of life literally in thesea, they have not yet adapted themselves to theirenvironment so far as to make themselves intodecent fishermen. Although the bay is swarmingwith excellent fish, and the canoes go out now andthen in a perfunctory way, very little fish finds itsway under the brown thatch roofs unless a crowd ofHula people, from a district some fifty miles downt
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