718 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION E. 
trade from the officials of the Company. As a chastisement the 
Dutch burnt Guliguli in 1621, but the Bugis replied by fortifying 
their cliff. In 1659 three of the Company’s ships and a fleet of 
kora-koras was Sent against them and dislodged them from Guliguli, 
but they speedily established another fortress at Solothay, 2 miles 
further east. This place was also taken and destroyed, and a 
Dutch fort erected on the site of Guliguli. When peace was at 
last made a few people returned to Guliguli, but their numbers 
were so greatly reduced by the attacks of the Dutch and the raids 
of Kilwaru slave-traders that in 1705 Willem de Rieu, who was 
conducting a hongi round Ceram, found only one homme standing 
on the cliff and two houses in Keliw alanga. Valentijn’s Oud en 
niew Oost-Indien 11, 11, 2, and iv, 4. In this bay, then, Abreu 
landed and took possession of a village. Dead bodies were found 
suspended in the houses, “for,” says Galvano, ‘here they eat 
human flesh.” This was a hasty and unjust conclusion to draw, 
partly based, no doubt, on the dictum of Ptolemy that the 
inhabitants of the Javas were man-eaters, whilst Ptolemy in turn 
drew his information from Arab traders, always ready to magnify 
the barbarism of the non-Mohammetan races with whom they 
came in contact. I am inclined to think that the dead bodies 
which Abreu saw were awaiting burial. The account which is 
given by Mr. H. O. Forbes of the burial customs of the Timorese 
throws some light on this matter. When a death takes place 
amongst them not only must every blood relation of the deceased 
present a gift to the departed, but a death feast, and also a burial 
feast, must be celebrated. The death feast alone is sometimes on 
so extensive a scale that the family is reduced to poverty by it, 
and cannot afford to give the burial feast for a long time after- 
wards. Indeed this duty is sometimes postponed so long that it 
is only carried out by remote descendants. But as custom requires 
that the body shall not be interred until the feast can be given, it 
is folded up at the hips, inclosed in a mat, and suspended by a 
cord underneath a small pent-house formed in the branches of a 
tree, where it is left hanging until such time as the burial feast 
can take place. (H. O. Forbes : “A Naturalst’s Wanderings in 
the Kastern Archipelago,” p. 435.) From what I have gathered 
about Guliguli and its inhabitants, I am inclined to think 
that Abreu’s visit took place before any migration of Malay 
settlers to that place, and that the people with whom he came 
in contact were indigenes of that division of the Papuans 
known as brown Papuans and sometimes as Alfuros. I have 
dwelt thus long on Guliguli and the vicissitudes of its history 
because it is an interesting village from many points of view— 
from a geographical, a historical, and an ethnographical—and 
because it is one of the few spots in the world which can be 
identified in connection with a great discovery voyage of the 
