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Fowls are kept in coops. They excel in fine network 

 and make hammocks. It is probable that the Maiva and 

 Mekeo are closely related tribes. Roro is the native name 

 for Yule Island, and it is employed for the cognate main- 

 landers. Moresby gives the first description of these people 

 (p. 177) ; other accounts will be found in D'Albertis, i., pp. 

 243-421 ; Stone, pp. 18-30, 186, 205, 230 ; Lyne, pp. 48-67 ; 

 Chalmers, 1885, pp. 1 66-1 91, 271 ; Letters from Verius, 

 Couppe and Navarre in Jouet, pp. 130-31 1, the chapter by 

 Bishop Navarre on Manners and Customs of New Guinea 

 is especially interesting. 



2. The Hill Tribes. — Macgillivray (i., pp. 293-298), 

 Gill (1876, pp. 242-263), and Moresby (p. 139) describe 

 the natives of Redscar Bay. The Kabadi, who live at the 

 back of the Bay, have been graphically described by Chal- 

 mers (1885, pp. 155-160; 1887, pp. 98-110, 1 19-123) ;cf. 

 also Macgregor, C. A., 1, 1892, p. 25. They with their 

 allies the Doura have a blood feud with Koitapu, and " have 

 long been notorious as a bad lot" (Macgregor, C, 6323, 

 1 89 1, p. 10). They and the Nara seclude their girls for a 

 year or two when about twelve years old (Chalmers, 1885, 

 p. 159; 1890, p. 319). The Doura are a miserable, small 

 tribe that has suffered much at the hands of its neighbours 

 (Chalmers, 1S87, pp. 91-98). Macgregor (C, 6323, 1891, 

 PP- 9~ 1 3) visited this country and ascended the Vanapa 

 River. He describes the chief as a man " with a decided 

 Semitic face," and goes on to say that the Oriental cast of 

 features is characteristic of the tribes of the interior. He 

 describes (C. A., 13, 1890, p. 7,8) a remarkable rattan sus- 

 pension bridge, which is figured by Thomson. The 



natives of the Owen Stanley Range have been described 

 by Macgregor, C. A., 13, 1890, p. 41 ; they speak a Pa- 

 puan dialect, and are physically stronger than the coast men, 

 with rather broad and prominent cheek bones, Semitic nose, 

 strong underjaw, very voluble ; they do not tattoo nor wear 

 nose ornaments, they wear caps made of cuscus fur {cf. also 

 Macgregor, Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc, xii., 1890, p. 193). H. O. 

 Forbes, P. R. G. S., 1890, p. 562) believes that these be- 

 longed to the same tribe he met with ; he gives a good de- 



