CHAPTER XII. 



NEW GUINEA {continued). 



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

 audible in New Guinea — -The Papuans of Dorei Bay— Amulets — The Manuen 

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

 legend of Mangundi — 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. 



East of Dampier Strait high seas are frequently met with, the 

 coast of New Guinea being here exposed to the North Pacific, and 

 on clearing the protection afforded us by Waigiou we encountered 

 worse weather than we had had for many weeks. The gloomy sky, 

 rough sea, and sheets of rain might have recalled the English 

 Channel in November had it not been for the thermometer, whose 

 steady register of 85° was sufficient to dispel any such illusion. 

 At daylight on the 1st of November we found we had slightly 

 overrun our distance, and altering our course to S.S.W. we soon 

 made out the island of Manaswari at the entrance of Dorei Bay. 

 As we approached, the weather grew brighter, and we caught sight 

 of the Arfak Mountains, which had hitherto been hidden in gloomy 

 clouds. Rounding Cape Mamori, on which the sea was breaking 

 heavily, we ran immediately into smooth water, and a little later 

 anchored in twenty fathoms close to the three villages of Dorei. 

 Dorei Bay, well known as the settlement of the Dutch 



