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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



This author also gives a remarkable plate of a sacred house at Dorei built on 

 carved piles over the water, but gives no sufficient description. The portion of the 

 plate showing the house is reproduced in Fig. 46. I am informed, however, by a recent 

 traveler" that this house no longer exists. 



I turn now to the opposite end of New Guinea, and quote as my authority a man 

 who has done much to increase our knowledge, not only of that part of the great island 

 geographicall}-, but has intimately known the people whom he went to teach. Reverend 



FIG. 47. VILLAGE ON DUAU. 



J. Chalmers. I met Mr. Chalmers (Tamate, as the natives affectionately termed him) 



in Sydney a short time before his martyrdom at the hands of a cannibal tribe, who 



knew not their true friend, and I was much impressed with his modest sincerity and 



great knowledge of his people. He has written all too little, but in one of his later 



writings'"* we find : 



Early in the afternoon, after passing tlie river Vailala, we anchored at Kaili, twenty-two miles 

 from Port Moresbj-, with 450 inhabitants. Kaili is charmingly situated at the head of a spacious 

 bay. This is the second entirely marine village I have visited. It consists of fifty houses built 

 on long poles in shallow water. There are four rows of these dwellings, the teacher's being the last. 

 The church which stands apart between two rows, is connected with Reboania's [the teacher]. The 

 road to church is merely one row of poles stuck in the sea, cross-sticks connecting the sacred edifice 



^'Mr. Thomas Barbour, who has made many important observations in that region. 

 "Work and Adventure in New Guinea. J. Chalmers and W. Wyatt Gill. London, 1885. 



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