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CHAPTER IIL 



FUOil AMT50INA TO TIMOR-LAUT. 



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Leave for Timor-laut — Saparua — Curious village and atoll of Gessir 

 New Guinea — Aru— Ke — Timor-laut — First impressions — New birds 

 and butterflies — State of siege — -Negotiate for a bouse — Language 



Our barter goods 



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CHAPTER IV. 



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SOJOURN IX TIMOR-LATJT. 



Tbe natives — Hair and coiffures— Vanity — Stature and living characte- 

 ristics — -Cranial characters — Clothing — Tjikalele dance — Arms 

 Marriage — Artistic skill — Individual and moral character — Treat- 

 ment of their children — Games — Fine figures — Graves — Good butter- 



fly resorts 



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CHArTER V. 



SOJOURN IN TiMOR-LAur (continued). 



Religion and superstitions — Visit to Waitidal — Barter for a skull^ — Send 

 my hunters to the northern islands of the group — Climate of Timor- 

 laut — A mauvais qy^irt d^heure — Desigu-rttion of the grouji — Geo- 

 graphical and geological features 



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CHArTER VI. 



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Appeni»ix to Part IV. 



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PAHT V. 

 m THE ISLAND OF B UM U. 



CHAPTER L 



rROJi kajeli to the lake. 



From Amboina to Biiru — Kajeli — Trade of Kajeli^ — Birds — River Apu — 

 Wai Bloi village— Village of Wai Gelan — The ]VIatakau — Forced 



encampments — Wai Klaba — A Pomalied mountain — Wasilal 



Hospitable reception — Houses — Musical performance — Pomali s'gns 

 Arrive at Lahi .. •• ,. .. •, .. .. 



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SOJOURN IN TIMOR-LAUT {continued). 



Natural History — Flora — Disaster to Herbarium — Fauna—Mimicking 

 birds — Insects — Fever and failure of supplies— Anxious waiting fur 

 steamer — Arrival of SS. Amboina^LQ^iYQ Timor-laut for Amboina 334 



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