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49-54; C. A., 1, 1893, pp. 37-43), thus completing almost 

 the last part of the coast hitherto unexplored ; not much is 

 yet known about the natives. Bevan gives a little informa- 

 tion about the natives of the river to which he gave the 

 absurd name of Oueen's jubilee River. 



The ethnography of the Grlllf Papuans has been largely 

 described by Chalmers in 1885, Orokolo : method of count- 

 ing, three legends, the origin of mankind, the story of 

 Kanitu and a deluge myth (p. 163), dubus, dance-masks and 

 a Semese dance (pp. 233-235). Three visits to the Papuan 

 Gulf are described, pp. 133-154, 192-204, 224-238. In 

 1887 Chalmers describes Maiupa, pp. 58-68 (also cf. 

 Thomson, J. P., Le Village des Cannibales de Maipua, Rev. 

 d'Etknogr., vii., 1888, p. 391) ; Orokolo, pp. 69-75, these 

 people are small in stature, especially the women, and are 

 very like the Koriari tribe at the back of Port Moresby ; 



Maclatchie Point, pp. 82-90; Motu-Motu, pp. 280-284. 



This last place is now called Toaripi by Chalmers ; the 

 latter is apparently the native name, whereas the former is 

 the name given to the village by the Motu. Chalmers also 

 now speaks of the Toaripi tribe ; formerly he called it the 

 Elema tribe ; the latter may be a more general term than 

 the former. 



A chapter on " Motu-Motu and the customs of the 

 people " is contributed by E. G. Edelfeld to Lindt's book 

 (1887, p. 132); he and Bevan (1890, pp. 138, 139, 144) 

 allude to these people as tall, well-built, very noisy, egoistic 

 and quarrelsome. Stalwart, hirsute men similar to these 

 occur generally from about the Aird River to Cape Posses- 

 sion ; but there are smaller, also dark people, within and 

 beyond these limits. A short distance up the Alele 

 (Wickham River) " the population is composed of black and 

 light coloured natives, all cannibals" (Chalmers, 1885, p. 

 143). Bevan describes the natives on the Aurarmar or 

 Arvei River (p. 239), and gives a figure of them (1888, p. 

 17), and in the latter book (p. 15) a photograph and descrip- 

 tion of the chief of Omai : "A little black man, with twink- 

 ling black eyes and pleasant features ". Lyne (pp. 68-95) anc ^ 

 Thomson (pp. 81-87) a ^ so re f er to Motu-Motu. A very 



