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very few ornaments were worn. One girl had distinct pretensions 

 to good looks, but she formed a marked exception to the others, 

 whose faces and figures were equally unattractive. A mainly 

 vegetable diet interferes considerably 

 with gracefulness of shape. 



The albino girl mentioned by 

 D'Albertis in his narrative was to 

 have been of the party, but an attack 

 of fever had kept her at Hatani, and 

 greatly to our regret we did not see 

 her. We proceeded, however, to 

 make use of the excellent types at 

 hand, and spent the greater part of 

 the day in photographing, an opera- 

 tion which the Arfak men did not 

 at first seem inclined to submit to. 

 It required unlimited patience and 

 the use of sundry interpreters to 

 explain matters, our wishes and 

 directions having to filter through 

 the Dutch, Nufoor, and Arfak lan- 

 guages before reaching their destination, but we at length succeeded 

 in obtaining some tolerably satisfactory negatives. It was hard 

 enough to get the people to sit at all, and harder still to make 

 them understand that they were to keep motionless. 



We ourselves, as I have mentioned, had been obliged to give up 

 all idea of shooting in this locality, but our first care on arrival at 

 Andai had been to send off three of our hunters with a guide, and 

 we were of course anxious to inspect the collection which had just 

 arrived for ]\Ir. Woelders. It contained some beautiful specimens 

 of the rarer birds of Paradise, among them Epimachus, D'Albertis's 

 Drepanornis, Astrapia, and the curious Wattled Bird of Paradise 

 (ParadigaUa caruncidata). The latter, whose plumage is of an 

 entire jet-black, has the appearance of being faintly ]30wdered over 



PAPUAN GIRL, HATAM. 



