. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . 500 feet high, a couple or three milesfrom the coast, being the only high land near thecoast in that part of New Guinea. The pearl-shellerswere, about that time, beginning their work in TorresStraits. They had formed a station at Warrior Island,where we left our vessel, and a South Sea islander,who had been to Dauan, accompanied us as one ofour crew. One of our great difficulties and dangers,in our first contact with savages, arises from the treat-ment which they have received fro
. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . 500 feet high, a couple or three milesfrom the coast, being the only high land near thecoast in that part of New Guinea. The pearl-shellerswere, about that time, beginning their work in TorresStraits. They had formed a station at Warrior Island,where we left our vessel, and a South Sea islander,who had been to Dauan, accompanied us as one ofour crew. One of our great difficulties and dangers,in our first contact with savages, arises from the treat-ment which they have received from foreigners whomay have preceded us ; and this South Sea islanderbeing rather a notorious character, his presence andknowledge of the island was a somewhat doubtfuladvantage to us. The first night we slept in the boat, anchoredoff one of the small, uninhabited islands in TorresStraits. On the afternoon of the second day wereached Dauan, anchored our boat a hundred yardsfrom the beach, and some of us waded on shore,where we were met by the chief and a few of hispeople. The women and children had all retreated. DAUAN ISLAND. HOW WE GOT AT THEM. 39 to the bush on the approach of the boat, and themen carried spears and bows and arrows, as theygenerally do, to be ready for any emergency. Ourmode of procedure on this and other occasions, whenfirst coming in contact with savages, was similarto that at Darnley ; further description is thereforeunnecessary—presents, tact, forbearance, kindness,—indeed, all may be summed up in the exercise ofcommon sense, without which a man may be everso pious, and clever, and self-sacrificing, and kindlydisposed towards the natives, and yet fail in hismission. The first night we spent on shore was a memorableone. After all was landed, and our teachers were pre-paring the supper, Mr. Murray and I walked along thebeach, and sat down by a creek, with the great land ofNew Guinea before us. The sun had set, and the darkoutline of the land stretched awa
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