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at Kalo is noted in the Arch. Rev., iv., 1890, p. 149. The 

 neighbouring Aroma tribe is referred to by Gill (pp. 297- 

 301). Koapena, the chief of Aroma, has the reputation of 

 being the finest savage throughout a large district ; he has 

 been described by Chalmers (1887, pp. 274-280), Lyne 

 (p. 114), Finsch (1885), Romilly (1889, pp. 1 77-181) and 

 others. 



The Mailu or Maim according to Chalmers occupy the 

 coast from Cloudy Bay to Orangerie Bay. Thomson 

 (pp. 42-47) conveniently summarises Macgregor's accounts 

 of his visit to this district ; especially interesting is the Ad- 

 ministrator's account (C. A., 105, 1890, p. 29) of the stock- 

 aded villages of Merani and Isimari ; the former is pro- 

 vided with two tree-houses which serve the double purpose 

 of watch-towers and for the defence of wall and of the 

 western gate, the most vulnerable part of the village. 

 The Cloudy Bay people have long had an evil repute 

 (Romilly, 1889, p. 60, and others), but Macgregor has now 

 brought them to reason. Lyne (pp. 135-143) describes a 

 visit to Mairu (Toulon Island) ; Chalmers has apparently 

 applied the name of the island to the people living on the 

 coast. 



The district around Tauwara (Milne Bay) and the 

 various archipelagoes off the south-eastern end of New 

 Guinea appear to constitute a natural region to which I 

 have elsewhere (1894) extended the term Massim (cf. Hamy, 

 Rev. d'Etknogr., vii., 1888, p. 503). 



For an account of the Suau (South Cape) natives see 

 Chalmers and Gill, 1885, pp. 40, 51, 329, 334, Lyne, p. 

 166 ; the latter describes a cannibal feast in Milne Bay 

 (p. 200). Moresby, who first discovered this bay, found the 

 natives "friendly from the first" (p. 216). Finsch gives an 

 account of this district (1888, pp. 262-273), so does Be van 

 (p. 89). The hill-tribes are noticed by Chalmers (1889, pp. 

 140, 143). Awaiama (Chads Bay), on the north side of the 

 peninsula, was the scene of the murder of a trader named 

 Ancell. This story, with the retribution w T hich followed, 

 is told by Baden Powell (1892, p. 147) and officially by 

 Macgregor (C, 5883, 1890, pp. 275-277, 297-301 ; C. A., 1, 



