CONTENTS xi 



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Preponderance of Men— Number of Wives— Childhood— Stvim- 

 ming and other Games — Imitativeness of Children — The Search 

 for Food — Women as Workers — Fishing Nets — Other Methods of 

 Fishing — An Extract from Dampier 109 



CHAPTER X 



Food of the Papuans — Cassowaries — The Native Dog — Question of 



Cannibalism — Village Headman — The Social System of the ___ 

 Papuans — The Family — Treatment of Women — Religion — 

 Weatlwr Superstitions — Ceremony to avert a Flood — The Pig — A 

 Village Festival— Wailing at Deaths — Methods of Disposal of the 

 Dead — No Reverence for the Pemains — Purchasing Skulls . .124 



CHAPTER XI 



Papuans^ Love of Music — Their Concerts — A Dancing House — Carving 

 — Papuans as Artists — Cat's Cradle — Village Sqjiabbles — The 

 Part of the Women — Wooden and Stone Clubs — Shell Knives and 

 Stofie Axes — Bows arid Arrows — Papuan Marksmen — Spears — 

 A most Primitive People — Disease — Prospects of their Civilisation 14] 



CHAPTER Xn ' 



The Camp at Parimau — A Plague of Beetles— fFirst Discovery of the 

 Tapiro Pygmies — Papuans as Carriers — We visit the Clearing of 

 the Tapiro — Remarkable Clothing of Tapiro — Our Relations with 

 the Natives — System of Paynwit — Their Confidefice in Us — 

 Occasional Thefts — A Customary Peace-ojfering— Papuans as 

 Naturalists 155 



CHAPTER XHI 



Visit of Mr. Lorentz — Arrival of Steatn Launch — A Sailor Drowned 

 — Our Second Batch of Coolies— Health of the Gurkhas — Dayaks 

 the Best Coolies — Sickness — Arrival of Motor Boat — Cafnp tinder 

 Water — Expedition fnoves to Parimau— Explorations beyond the 

 Mimika — Leeches — Floods on the Tiiaba River — Overfioiving 

 Rivers— The Wataikwa— Cutting a Track . . . .169 



