NEW GUINEA. 



44' 



leaves into separate chambers for the men and women and 

 unmarried. 



Each house has a fire-place and two small doors, which 

 latter form the only entrance for the light and means of exit for 

 the smoke. The houses are in two rows in each village, with 

 the worst houses at the ends of the rows. 



The temples, which are placed in the middle, are mostly 



TEMPLE AT TOBADDI. 



octagonal, and reach to a height of 60 or 70 feet. Some 

 temples have two roofs, one over the other. There are figures 

 of men, fish, lizards, and other animals at the apex of the roofs, 

 and similar figures at each of the eight angles. 



For accounts of Humboldt Bay, see "Dumont DTJrville Voy. de 

 TAstrolabe.'" Paris, 1830. "Voy. au Pole Sud." Paris, 1841. 



" Neu Guinea und seine Bewohner." Otto Finsch. Bremen, Ed. Miiller, 

 1865, s. 132. 



"Nieuw Guinea Ethnogr. en Natuururkundig onderzoocht in 1858 

 door een Nederl. Ind. Comniissie." Bijdragen tot de Taal Land en 

 Volkenkunde van Nederlandisch Indie. Amsterdam, F. Miiller, 1862, 

 5th Deel. From this work the three figures given above are copied. 



For " Von Eosenberg's Account of the Visit," see Nat. Tydsch voor. 

 Neder. Indie. Deel XXIV. Batavia, H.M. van Dorp, 1862, p. 333, et seq. 



