CONTENTS xlii 



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— IFe start into the Motmtains — Fording Rivers — Flowers — Lack 

 of Water on Hillside — Curious Vegetation — Otir hig/iest Point — 

 A wide View — Rare Birds — Coal — Uninhabitable Country — 

 Dreary Jungle — Rarely any Beauty — Remarkable Trees — 

 Occasional Compensations 229 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Departure from Parimau — Parting Gifts — Mock Lamentation — 

 Rawling explores Kaniura River — Start for the IVania — Lose 

 the Propeller — A Perilous Anchorage — Unpleasant Night — Leave 

 the Motor Boat — Village of Nim'e — Arrival of ^^ Zwaan" with 

 Dayaks — T/uir Departure — Waifmgfor the Ship — Taking Leave 

 of the People of Wakatimi — Sail from Neiv Guinea — KcLslands — 

 Banda — Hospitality of the Netherlands Governfncnt — Lieute?iant 

 Cramer — Sumbawa — Bali— Return to Sitigapore and England — 

 One or two Reflexions 246 



APPENDIX A 



Notes on the Birds collected by the B. 0. U. Expedition to Dutch New 



Guinea. By JV. R. Ogilvie- Grant 263 



APPENDIX B 

 T/ie Pygmy Question. By Dr. A. C. Haddon^ F.R.S. . . . 303 



APPENDIX C 



Notes on Languages in the East of Netherlands New Guinea. By 



Sidney H. Ray, M.A 322 



Index . , 347 



