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species. We have beetles, grasshoppers, lizards, ete., 
without number. The collections will provide material 
for some good papers. I shall have some photographs 
made into lantern slides; I think the people at Tup- 
per Lake will enjoy seeing people who have bushy 
heads of hair perhaps two feet in diameter and who 
wear wild boars’ tusks stuck through their noses. 
At Humboldt’s bay we made great friends with 
the people by painting them red, white and blue, the 
eolors of the Dutch flag. At Djamma, New Guinea, 
Ros. was the first woman, white or native, who ever 
went into the temple there, as this can be entered only 
by men. At Humboldt’s bay we tried to induce the 
people to let her in but they simply took up spears 
and bows and arrows and stood about the door, so we 
did not press matters. I saw a Chinese trader here 
buy a live cassowary for two packages of tobacco, 
value, forty cents, Dutch, which he took to Ternate 
and sold for thirty guilders; it will now go to Singa- 
pore, where it will bring $75. Mex., and so on to Hag- 
enbeck’s at Hamburg. The Chinese hold every bit or 
trading in their hands here, but they do a great deal 
towards opening up the country. They are absolutely 
disease proof, thrivmg in the swamps of Borneo as if 
they were in Canton. They are the only people who 
in this climate work regularly, steadily and inter- 
estedly. 
We had an amusing time at Roon, New Guinea. 
Here the people live in great communal houses out on 
the water. We decided upon a visit as was our daily 
eustom and so took a small rowboat from the ship 
early in the morning and rowed up to the plat- 
form of one cof the houses. The men at once came out 
