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Drs. O. Finsch and A. B. Meyer on 



Before 1880 Hunstein^ ulong with Dan, O'Connor and 

 other gold-diggers, had penetrated into the heart of the 

 Owen-Stanley Mountains, as far as the south-western branch 

 of the range, which was named by him " Horseshoe Moun- 

 tain/'' On information furnished by the above-named ex- 

 plorers, Finsch, during his sojourn in South-eastern New 

 Guinea in 1882, where he met with them in Port Moresby, 



WEfJ ST/^NL£Y /W* 



HUNSTfilN^ COLLe.(TINC-STAT«lN 

 IN TH£ HORSe-SHoe Mout/rAIDIi 



THE Po/nfT Pfte^iou-f(-y neACMfPBi Hon3T£jti 



HON A fALLS 



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District of Port Moresby. 



prepared a rough map of this district, which has not yet 

 been published and from which the map herewith given has 

 been taken. 



Hunstein left Goldie and his companions in 1883, and 

 in 1884 undertook on liis own account an expedition to the 

 Owen-Stanley Mountains with the intention of getting to a 

 higher elevation than before, because he knew from his 



