GONTJENTS. 



CHAPTEE XII. 



NEW GUINEA (continued). 



Arrive at Dorei Bay — Dutch missionaries — Mansinam — The Krakatau eruption 

 audible in Xew Guinea-^The Papuans of Dorei Bay — Amulets — The Manucn 

 — Houses of the natives— ^oroifaar- — The idol-houses — A snake myth — The 

 legend of ]\Iaugundi — A cosmopolitan forge — Feasts and dancing — ^Marriage 

 customs — Government — Survival of the unfittest — Andai — The climate of the 

 coast — Malarial fever — The Hatam Papuans — Birds of the Arfak ^Mountains — 

 Burial customs — Height of the Arfak range — "We sail for Jobi Island — Our 

 pilot Kawari . . . . . . . . Page 272 



CHAPTEE XIII. 



NEW GUINEA {continuccT). 



Faknik — Arrive at Ansus — Signification of the native comb — Dress of the women — 

 Paperipi — Paradisea minor — The King-bird — Development of its plumes — 

 Canoes and their decoration — Skulls and corpses in the trees — Narvoii — Cascadu 

 — Cooking a corpse — Koroicaar — An unpleasant adventure — Return of our 

 hunters — AVooden pillows — Return to Waigiou — Leave for Salwatti — How the 

 Rajah lost his nose — We secure a live Seleitcides — Method of catching them — 

 Character of the Papuan — Leave for Misol Island — Uncertainties of navigation 

 — ^Anchor at Efbe — Northern limit of the Eucalyptus . . Page 301 



CHAPTEE XIV. 



AMBOINA, BANDA, AND THE AKU ISLANDS, 



Amboina — The toAvn — Tomb of Rumpliius — The clove trade — "Sea-gardens" — The 

 climate — Microylossus — Banda — The harbour and volcano — View from Papenberg 

 — Xutmegs — Banda Neira and its forts — Leave for Aru — Non-existent islands — 

 Dobbo — The village and its trade — The pearl-fisherj^ — Paradisea apoda — Trading 

 praus — Fruit-eating pigeons — Perils of a collector — Ornithoptera arruana — Our 

 hunters return from Wanumbai — We begin the homeward voyage . Page 326 



