CHAPTER XVIII 



Departnye from Parimau — Parting Gifts — Mock Lamentation — Rauling 

 explores Kamitra River— Start for the Wania—Lose the Propeller— 

 A Perilous Anchorage — Unpleasant Night — Leave the Motor Boat — 

 Village of Nimc — Arrival of " Zivaan " with Dayaks — Their 

 Departure — Waiting for the Ship — Taking Leave of the People of 

 Wakatimi — Sail from New Guinea — Ke Islands — Banda — Hospi- 

 tality of the Netherlands Government — Lieutenant Cramer — Sum- 

 hawa — Bali — Return to Singapore and England — One or T'wo 

 Reflexions. 



After our return to Parimau in February, Rawling and 

 Grant went down to Wakatimi, while Marshall and 1 

 spent a week in visiting the village of the Tapiro in 

 a last but vain attempt to see the pygmy women. The 

 first few days of March were occupied in packing up 

 the accumulated odds and ends of our year's occupa- 

 tion and on the gth of March we were ready to depart. 

 We had told the natives that we were going away and 

 for days before we went they pestered us with questions 

 as to whether we were coming back and what we would 

 give them when we went, and they quickly decided 

 which of our houses they intended to occupy. 



On the morning of our departure from Parimau 

 we allowed no natives to come into the camp until all 

 the canoes were loaded up and ready for a start. 

 Then we called out to them to come over and about 

 forty men and boys splashed across the river and came 

 swarming into the camp. We had kept for them a 



