. The new New Guinea. . • 156 The labourers welcome home 160 In the lower ranges . . 166 Building a planters house . . . 168 The empty lands . • • 170 vii Vlll THE NEW NEW GUINEA TO FACE IAGE A Papuan high road . ... 172 A plantation holiday . . 176 Cattle farming : Sariba Island . ... 188 Labourers in the gold-fields 190 Carriers on the way to the gold-mines 196 A widows weeds : Fly River 206 Fly River folk .... 208 Willie .... 226 Where Chalmers was killed . . 228 The bones of the murdered missionaries 228 The 6oo-feet-long dubu . . 230 Aird River natives (showing the flat foot of the swamp
. The new New Guinea. . • 156 The labourers welcome home 160 In the lower ranges . . 166 Building a planters house . . . 168 The empty lands . • • 170 vii Vlll THE NEW NEW GUINEA TO FACE IAGE A Papuan high road . ... 172 A plantation holiday . . 176 Cattle farming : Sariba Island . ... 188 Labourers in the gold-fields 190 Carriers on the way to the gold-mines 196 A widows weeds : Fly River 206 Fly River folk .... 208 Willie .... 226 Where Chalmers was killed . . 228 The bones of the murdered missionaries 228 The 6oo-feet-long dubu . . 230 Aird River natives (showing the flat foot of the swamp country 1 232 A patent of nobility . . 242 Dancing masks : Gulf of Papua 25 + Samarai Island . . 258 The shores of Samarai . . 260 A happy afternoon . . 266 The palmy shores of Papua 270 Samarai . . • 274 Misima canoes . . . 304 Among the islands . . 308 Trobriand village . . . 310 Trobriand islanders . . . 312 British New Guinea MAP to face page \i/. THE NEW NEW GUINEA CHAPTER I What is Papua ?—The tropical martyr—How not to see Queensland—Beche-de-mer—The inevitable —The history of Papua—Port Moresby. TIKE everybody else, I thought New Guinea be-longed to England ; that it was a most unget-atable place ; that it was inhabited almost solely bythe fiercest cannibals in the world ; that it was sounhealthy as to be called the White Mans Grave,and that there was nothing worth having there exceptBirds of Paradise. Even after spending some months in the NewHebrides, which are not many hundred miles re-moved from the great island continent of Papua, Idid not know much more about New Guinea thanI had known in my schoolroom days at home. Thecountries of the Pacific world are separated fromeach other with a completeness undreamed of inEurope. The New Hebrides know nothing of NewGuinea. The Fijis are ignorant of the New great central groups — Cook Islands, Tonga,Samoa — tell fairy tales of Fiji, and believe t
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