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coloured : thev are allied to the Koiari. The Tabure and 

 Sogeri are similar to the Koiari. 



3. The Melanesian Colonists.— Of these immigrants 



the Motu have been most written about. Moresby (pp. 

 154-158) was the first to discover Port Moresby, which is the 

 centre of the Motu tribe and has since become the capital of 

 British New Guinea. The port was next visited by Gill 

 (1876, p. 263); W. Y. Turner gives an extremely good account 

 of the people, which is supplemented by Lawes. Stone's 

 account will be found on pp. 46-97, 193, 203. Chalmers 

 (1887, A., pp. 63-68) describes Motu marriage and funeral 

 customs, their religion and other matters ; the legend (p. 57) 

 pointing to a common origin with the Koiari, Koitapu and 

 Elema (Toaripi) by no means adequately accounts for the 

 ethnological relationships of the Motu. Elsewhere (1887) 

 he devotes chap. ii. to a graphic account of the pre- 

 parations for the annual trading voyage and chap. viii. to 

 a comparison of Motu and Toaripi customs and beliefs. 

 The Motu make great trading voyages to the Gulf of Papua 

 in October, i.e., at the end of the south-east monsoon, and 

 return during the north-west monsoon. They voyage in 

 lakatois, each of which consists of at least three canoes 

 joined together and rigged with sails like crabs' claws. 

 The Motu women make pottery, and as many as 30,000 

 pots will be exchanged in one year, for 1 50 tons of sago. 

 A fleet of twenty lakatois would carry 600 men, and each 

 man takes about fifty pots (Romilly. 1893, p. 257). The 

 voyagers in some cases go to a distance of 200 miles. 

 Lindt gives excellent photographs of these strange craft 

 and an account of them and the method of sailing them 

 (pp. 29-47). Lawes (1888) has made a scholarly study of 

 the Motu language. 



In his map Chalmers groups the Hula, Kerepunu and 

 allied tribes under the name Loyalupu. These people 

 closely resemble the Motu, but appear to be somewhat lighter 

 in colour. Stone (p. 190), Gill (1885, p. 288), Chalmers 

 (1887, p. 323; 1887, A., pp. 63, 65), Lyne (pp. 102-122) 

 and Lindt (p. 67), allude to these people ; the women are 

 even better tattooed than the Motu. An annual ceremony 



