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on the main supporting-posts. The latter are sometimes carved and painted, with a human 

 skull stuck on the top. The temples are rather larger, with carved wooden posts, one repre- 

 senting a male, the other a female figure. These probably represent the guardian deities. 

 The canoes are more Polynesian than Papuan in form; each is formed from the hollow 

 trunk of a tree, with a single plank built on to it above. They have an outrigger on one 

 side. A platform is formed with planks between the canoe and the outrigger. Of musical 

 instruments the natives of the Admiralty Islands have for trumpet a conch-shell perforated on 

 one side, a simple Jew's harp of bamboo, panpipes of from three to five pipes of different 

 lengths, and drums. But they have no idea of a tune. In character they appeared to 



Fnau a photograph by the Bishop of Tasmania (by permission}. 



WOMEN OF PORT ADAM, SOLOMON ISLANDS. 



Mr. H. N. Moseley, of the Challenger Expedition to whom we are indebted for the above 

 facts to be excitable, rapacious, greedy, and jealous. 



A few words, in conclusion, with regard to their expressions of emotion. Astonishment is 

 shown by placing the finger in the mouth, delight by clapping the hands. To say "Yes" 

 the head is jerked upwards. To express "No," or a negative, the nose is struck with the 

 right forefinger, as if the tip were to be cut off. This action is capable of modification. 

 Thus, a decided negative is indicated by a quick stroke; a hesitating one by rubbing the 

 finger slowly across the nose. The natives quite understood the action of a burning-glass, but 

 a looking-glass was beyond their comprehension, and they have been known to break one 

 in order to get at the image behind! Crowds of people came to see the man with white 

 arms who showed them all these things: they could not understand his arms and legs 

 being white. 



