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NEW GUINEA. 



fastened together. Walls and roof are made of bamboos and 

 palm-leaves, and the interior is separated by partition walls 

 made of palm-leaves into separate chambers for the men and 

 women and unmarried. 



Each house has a fire-place and two small doors, which 

 latter form the only entrance for the light and means of exit 

 for the smoke. The houses are in two rows in each village, 

 with the worst houses at the ends of the rows. 



The temples, which are placed in the middle, are mos 



TEMPLE AT TOBADDI. 



octagonal, and reach to a height of 60 or 70 feet. Some 

 temples have two roofs, one over the other. There are figures 

 of men, fish, lizards, and other animals at the apices of the 

 roofs, and similar figures at each of the eight angles. 



For accounts of Humboldt Bay, see "Dumont D'Urville Voy, de 

 ' rAstrolabe." ' Paris, 1830. " Voy. au Pole Sud." Paris, 184 1. 



" Neu Guinea und seine Bewohner." Otto Finsch. Bremen, Ed. 

 Muller, 1865, s. 132. 



" Nieuw Guinea Ethnogr. en Natuururkundig onderzoocht in 1858 

 door een Nederl. Ind. Commissie." Bijdragen tot de Taal Land en 

 Volkenkunde van Nederlandisch Indie. Amsterdam, F. Muller, 1862, 

 5th Deel. From this work the three figures given above are copied. 



For " Von Rosenberg's Account of the Visit," see Nat. Tydsch voor. 

 Neder. Indie. Deel XXIV. Batavia, H.M. van Dorp, 1862, p. 333, et seq. 



