Country Round Dorey. 



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short and matty, instead of being long, loose, and woolly ; and 

 this seemed to be a constitutional difference, not the effect of 

 care and cultivation. Nearly 



half of them were afflicted with i, , 



the scurvy skin-disease. The 

 old chief seemed much pleased 

 with his present, and promised 

 (through an interpreter I brought 

 with me) to protect my men 

 when they came there shooting, 

 and also to procure me some 

 birds and animals. While con- 

 versing, they smoked tobacco of 

 their own growing, in pipes cut 

 from a single piece of wood 

 with a long upright handle. 



We had arrived at Dorey 

 about the end of the wet season, 

 when the whole coimtry was 

 soaked with moisture. The na- 

 tive paths were so neglected as 

 to be often mere tunnels closed 

 over with vegetation, and in such places there was always a 

 fearful accumulation of mud. To the naked Papuan this is no 

 obstruction. He wades through it, and the next water-course 

 makes him clean again; but to myself, wearing boots and 

 trowsei's, it wa» a most disagreeable thing to have to go up to 

 my knees in a mud-hole every morning. The man I brought 

 with me to cut wood fell ill soon after we arrived, or I would 

 have set him to clear fresh paths in the worst places. For the 

 first ten days it generally rained every afternoon and all night ; 

 but by going out every hour of fine weather, I managed to get 

 on tolerably with my collections of birds and insects, finding 

 most of those collected by Lesson during his visit in the Go- 

 quille, as well as many new ones. It appears, however, that 

 Dorey is not the place for birds of paradise, none of the na- 

 tives being accustomed to preserve them. Those sold here 

 are all brought from Amberbaki, about a hundred miles west, 

 where the Doreyans go to trade. 



The islands in the bay, with the low lands near the coast, 



PAPUAN PIPE. 



