GENERAL CHARACTERS OF THE COUNTRY. 
1. TOPOGRAPHY. 
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The north-west coast of New Guinea is bleak, mountainous, and ‘sparsely 
inhabited. The mountains, from 5000-7000’, rise abruptly from the sea, 
there being little sloping foreground and few small bays to shelter 
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the schooners and Papuan praus, which only trade during the favourable 
monsun. There is no good anchorage for large boats between Sorong, an 
island on the extreme north-west, the first point of call, and Dorei 
Bay, 
a fine harbour, consisting of two bays, sheltered by the islands of Mansinam 
and the much smaller Meoswar. A low mangrove spit, on which a Papuan 
