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attention to the mixture of races that occurs here. In 

 appearance, intelligence, excitability, handicrafts and 

 most of their customs, the islanders are also unmistakably 

 Papuan. 



The mainland between the Dutch boundary and the Fly 

 River has been explored by several people, and is now being 

 pacified by Sir Wm. Macgregor. In Beardmore's paper 

 (1890), and in the notes which follow, will be found an 

 account of the Daudai (Mowatta, etc.) people (cf. C. A., i„ 

 1893, p. 35). Macgregor (C. A., 1, 1892, p. 43) discovered 

 the Dabulai, who inhabit the country opposite Saibai Island, 

 and who are said to have affinities with the Western tribe 

 of Torres Straits. In the same report he alludes, amongst 

 other tribes, to the Masingara, who chew kava (cf. /. A. I., 

 xxi., 1 89 1, p. 204; D'Albertis, ii., p. 197). The first accu- 

 rate account of the Mai- and Wassi-Kussa Rivers is that 

 by C. E. Strode Hall (C, 5883, 1890, p. 213). Strachan's 

 account apparently is very misleading. For accounts of 

 Tugeri head-hunters, who come from Netherlands New 

 Guinea to ravage the coasts and islands of the British 

 Protectorate, cf H addon (1891); Macgregor (C. A., 

 105, 1890, pp. 68-75; f. A. /., xxi., 1891, p. 200; 

 C. A., 1, 1893, pp. 50-53). Little is known of the coast 

 between Mowatta and the Fly River or of the adjacent 

 islands (cf. C, 6323, 1891, pp. 116-118; The Arch. Rev., 

 hi., 1889, p. 276; and Gill, 1876, pp. 219-242). Macfar- 

 lane in his " Notes from New Guinea," Athe7tceum, 1876, 

 p. 725, expresses his view concerning the ethnology of 

 these people. 



All we know concerning the ethnography of the Fly River 

 valley is due to D'Albertis and Macgregor. The latter says 

 (C, 6323, 1891, p. 113) : : ' I have seen no evidence of the 

 existence of a race in the interior distinct from the coast 

 tribes. Those seen at the boundary between British and 

 German New Guinea were of a light colour ; but that may 

 not signify much. The dialects of the lower tribes differ 

 from those of the upper in, as far as we know, every word. 

 Of the structure of the languages we know nothing. . . . 

 They all use the bow and arrow. They suffer from the 



