22 PYGMIES AND PAPUANS 



the Dutch was acquired by them with the kingdom of 

 the Sultan of Ternatc, who was accustomed to claim 

 Western New Guinea as a part of his dominions : it is 

 bounded on the East by the 141st parallel of East 

 longitude and partly by the Fly River and thus it 

 comprises nearly a half of the island. 



The Eastern half of the island is divided into a 

 Northern, German, and a Southern, British, part. The 

 German territory is called Kaiser Wilhelm Land, and 

 the islands adjacent to it, which have received German 

 substitutes for their old names of New Britain, New 

 Ireland, etc., are known as the Bismarck Archipelago. 

 British New Guinea, which is now administered by the 

 Federal Government of Australia, has been officially 

 renamed the Territory of Papua, and with it are included 

 the numerous islands at its Eastern extremity, the 

 D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade Archipelagoes, 



Only in the British territory has a serious attempt 

 been made at setthng and administering the country ; 

 the headquarters of the Government are at Port Moresby, 

 and the country is divided into six magisterial districts. 



The German possessions are governed from Herberts- 

 hohe in Neu Pommern (New Britain), which is the 

 centre of a small amount of island trade, but the settle- 

 ments on the New Guinea mainland are few and far 

 between, and it cannot be pretended that the country 

 is German except in name. 



The Dutch territory has been even less brought under 

 control than the German. For more than half a century 

 there has been a mission station at Dorei in the N.W. 

 but until 1899 when the Dutch assumed the direct 



