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which, with myriad prostrate Barringtonia-seedlings, attached by the one 
anchor-root, all pointing seawards, bear witness to the force of great waves 
retreating from their rush inland. 
In many places this undergrowth was so thick, or the prostrate trunks so 
numerous, that it was easiest to walk through the surf, outside the branches 
of the fringing trees. The rivers, where there is no sand to bar their exit, 
form small mangrove swamps at their mouths, which have to be waded 
through. In one of these small swamps a tree covered with a vine of 
Mucuna Kratkei, also known from the N.E. and S.W., whose numerous huge 
racemes formed a dome of brilliant red flowers, was a magnificent sight. 
Wariap. 
Here, where the people all remembered Mr. van Oosterzee and the 
Pratts, I was welcomed as an old friend—the ‘“‘korano,” a very fine 
man physically and quite a personality, and the “ guru ”’ (teacher), to whom 
T had a letter from Mr. van Hasselt, having already paid their respects at 
Waren. It was arranged that the “korano,” Manao, should act as guide to 
my party to the lakes, and the Wariap people of themselves offered to 
accompany me as carriers, promising to remain as long as I stayed there— 
a promise sealed on “ Pinang” and “ Zabacco,” as they call the latter, and 
faithfully kept. “ Pinang ” replaces betel-nut on the coast of N. New 
Guinea, being obtained from the wild Areca macrocalyx Zipp. (12, i, 18) 
and eaten with lime and the fruit of Piper Siriboa (14, 69). 
Wariap, situated on a sand-spit through which the Momi has cut its 
broad way on one side, forming a good harbour for praus, while on the 
other Casuarinas are massed, is quite a large and busy “ campong,” where 
much prau-building and making of Pandanus mats (nokés) and sago-holders 
is carried on. 
The long whale-backed houses are built above the beach, on a level spit 
of very fine sand, which, overgrown with grass and Pes-Capre, is broken by 
shallow green lagoons shadowed by a jungle upgrowth of Thespesia populnea, 
Abrus precatorius, Casalpinia Nuga, Wedelia biflora, ete. 
(6) Inunpation Forest Bex. 
Just behind the beach formation this forest forms a huge unbroken green 
wall, in which the pyramidal branching of Terminalia ‘Catappa is easily 
distinguished from the outside, whilst most of the trees are covered with the 
heavy green curtains, falling straight from the crowns, of Zanonia macro- 
carpa, a Cucurbitaceous liane. In this forest Ficus, Macaranga, and 
Artocarpus sp., the latter with enormous leaves often about 1 m. long 
and 3m. or more broad, mostly predominate—their trunks screened with 
immense fronds of climbing ferns, spreading radially all the way up, 
or Epipremnopsis Hugeliana, Raphidophora Peepla, other Philodendron spp., 
