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pended every Saturday at noon where practicable. 

 Saturday afternoon is devoted to washing clothes. 

 Every native prisoner must appear in clean clothes be- 

 fore he receives his weekly allowance of tobacco, which 

 is served out every Saturday afternoon. The prisoners 

 are employed at excavations for Government build- 

 ings, discharging and handling cargo, and coaling the 

 Merrie Englande. The roads and streets at and around 

 Port Moresby are kept clean. All sanitary works 

 are carefully attended to by prison labour ; a gang of 

 twelve prisoners and two prison warders are con- 

 stantly employed at this work. All public buildings 

 are painted, lime- washed; house piles and fencing 

 posts are tarred when necessary; also fencing and 

 all other rough repairs are done by prison labour. 

 A gang is always kept road-making when available." 



A term in gaol is often indeed the beginning of a 

 new life for the native, in which he adopts some of 

 the ways of civilisation that he has learned whilst 

 under arrest. 



From Gizo I went on to Samarai, very much out 

 of conceit with the island life, my ideas of it being 

 strongly coloured for a time by the thought of the 

 tragedy. From Samarai I made a run to Buna 

 Bay, which I reached about June 14, 1908. After 

 discharging cargo, I got carriers and went inland to 

 where I had got the Troides alexandrae previously. 

 I did not succeed in getting many specimens but got 



a lot of fever and sickness instead. I had erysipelas 

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