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There is at present very little information respecting the 

 natives of the north-eastern coast of the Possession. 

 Captain Moresby was the first to explore this coast, and he 

 gives a few notes on the natives. Macgregor (C. A., I, 

 1892, pp. 11, 63) gives more details near Cape Sebiribiri 

 (Cape Vogel) ; the natives are beginning to learn the use of 

 tobacco and iron ; they cook in profusely ornamented wide- 

 mouthed clay pots. In OollingWOOd Bay "they did not 

 understand the use of iron and had no wish to obtain any, of 

 tobacco they were, of course, quite ignorant, and we found 

 that the pieces of bamboo they carried were used exclusively 

 as nose flutes ". Moresby describes these people as dark 

 and dirty-looking. Along this coast, according to Mac- 

 gregor, the natives use disc-shaped stone clubs, spears and 

 shields ; they chew the betel, " but possess none of the 

 dexterity in carving limespoons, etc., so conspicuous in the 

 Trobriand Group. . . . They do not tattoo." Many wear 

 the hair in long matted ringlets, some of the men wear 

 false whiskers ; they make elaborate corsets of net and 

 inwoven Job's tears. 



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