0MB3. 



LAND OF PAPUA?, or NEW GUINEA. 



nvith an axe or chopping knife, his lands and labor are fubjeci 

 to a tax for ever to the donor. If the Harafora loles his axe, 

 he is ftill fubjea: to the tax; if he breaks or wears it out the 

 Papuan mud fupply him with another, or the tax ceafes. The 

 Haraforas wear long hair, but are Pagans like the Papuans. 

 They live in trees, which they afcend by a long notched pole, 

 which they draw after them to prevent furprife. 



I CAN give no account of the religious rites of either of thefe Toj 

 people. Th€ Papuans form tombs of the rude coral rock ; Mr. 

 Forreji faw one with the wooden figure of a child about eight 

 years old, completely dreffed ; a real fcull, with a wooden head, 

 was placed in the upper part. 



Their commerce is chiefly with the Cbmeje\ from them they Commsrce. 

 purchafe their iron tools, chopping knives, and axes, blue and 

 red baftas, China beads, plates, balbns, 8cc. The Cbinefe carry 

 back Mifory bark, v/hich they get to the eaftward of Doijy at a 

 place called IVarmafine or Warapine^ it is worth thirty dollars a 

 pecul on Java. They trade alfo in flaves, ambergris, Suallo, or 

 fea Aug, tortoife-fliell, fmall pearls, black Loen'es, large red 

 Loen'es, birds of Paradife, and many kinds of dead birds which 

 the Papuans have a particular way of drying. As to the Mi- 

 fory bark, the Cbinefe carry it to the ifland of Java, and fell it to 

 the natives, who reduce it to powder, and rub their bodies with 

 it, as the Gentoos on the Coromandel coaft do with the fandal 

 wood. 



After this extra6l, let me obferve how very prevalent is the 



infamous traffic in our fellow creatures, for it reaches poffibly to 



the remoteft part of New Guinea. The man I mention at p. 34 of 



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