-196 New Guinea. 



CHAPTER XXXIY. 



K E W GUINEA. D O K E Y. 



mar(5h to JULY, 1858. 



After my return from Gilolo to Ternate, in March, 1858, 

 I made arrangements for my long-wished-for voyage to the 

 main-land of New Guinea, where I anticipated that my collec- 

 tions would sui'pass those which I had formed at the Aru 

 Islands. The poverty of Ternate in articles used by Europe- 

 ans was shown, by my searching in vain through all the stores 

 for such common things as flour, metal spoons, wide-mouthed 

 phials, beeswax, a jDenknife, and a stone or metal pestle and 

 mortar. I took with me four servants : my head man Ah, and 

 a Ternate lad named Jumaat (Friday), to shoot; Lahagi, a 

 steady, middle-aged man to cut timber and assist me in insect- 

 collecting ; and Loisa, a J avanese cook. As I knew I should 

 have to build a house at Dorey, where I was going, I took 

 with me eighty cadjans, or waterproof mats, made of panda- 

 nus leaves, to cover over my baggage on first landing, and to 

 help to roof my house afterward. 



We started on the 25th of March in the schooner Hester 

 Helena^ belonging to my friend Mr. Duivenboden, and bound 

 on a trading voyage along the north coast of New Guinea. 

 Having calms and light airs, we were three days reaching Gane, 

 near the south end of Gilolo, where we staid to fill up our wa- 

 ter-casks and buy a few provisions. We obtained fowls, eggs, 

 sago, plantains, sweet potatoes, yellow pumpkins, chilies, fish, 

 and dried deer's meat; and on the afternoon of the 29th pro- 

 ceeded on our voyage to Dorey harbor. We found it, how- 

 ever, by no means easy to get along ; for so near to the equa- 

 tor the monsoons entirely fail of their regularity, and after 

 passing the southern point of Gilolo we had calms, light puffs 

 of wind, and contrary currents, which kept us for five days in 

 sight of the same islands between it and Poppa. A squall 

 then brought us on to the entrance of Dampier's Straits, 



