The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 TOPOGRAPHY OF NEW GUINEA. 307 Waigeu, although fertile and thickly peopled, produces nothing for exportation. The natives, of mixed Malay and Papuan descent, are indolent, like all other islanders for whom the sago tree yields a superabundance of food with little effort Fig. 133.—Waigeu, Batanta, and Salwaty. Scale 1 : 1,500,000. Easb cF Greenwich I50°20 13I'40- Oto50 Fathoms. Depths. 50 to 250 Fathoms. 250 Fathoms and upwards. . 36 Sliles. on their part. In the interior there are no independen
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 TOPOGRAPHY OF NEW GUINEA. 307 Waigeu, although fertile and thickly peopled, produces nothing for exportation. The natives, of mixed Malay and Papuan descent, are indolent, like all other islanders for whom the sago tree yields a superabundance of food with little effort Fig. 133.—Waigeu, Batanta, and Salwaty. Scale 1 : 1,500,000. Easb cF Greenwich I50°20 13I'40- Oto50 Fathoms. Depths. 50 to 250 Fathoms. 250 Fathoms and upwards. . 36 Sliles. on their part. In the interior there are no independent Alfuru tribes, and all the inhabitants recognise the rajah, who resides at Samsam, at the head of the inlet by which the island is nearly divided into two parts. The isthmus of Fak-Fak connecting the two nearly equal sections is scarcely 200 feet high. But the most
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