CHAPTER XIII. 



NEW GUINEA (contimiccl). 



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

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

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

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

 hunters — Wooden pillows — Return to AVaigiou — Leave for Sahvatti — How the 

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

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

 — Anchor at Efbe — Northern limit of the Eucalyptus. 



To ensure the safety of the ship on her voyage old Kawari had 

 looked out the necessary amulet from the bunch that hung on his 

 chest, and placed it at its post of action between his shoulder-blades. 

 AVe were therefore protected from the malevolent designs of the 

 Faknik- — evil spirits who are the cause of storms and adverse 

 winds, and whose dwellings are the caves by the seashore. They 

 are ever on the alert to drown the mariner, and to cause him — as 

 does the Manuen on land — every kind of misfortune and distress. 

 A good amulet, we were glad to learn, is most efficacious against 

 their spell, and we were further protected by a very liberal supply 

 of tobacco which, if thrown into the sea as an offering, is often, 

 Kawari told us, of the greatest use in the event of an amulet 

 proving inefficient. The old pilot's charm, however, was by one of 

 the best makers in Dorei, and at the end of our voyage the tobacco 

 was intact. 



The village of Ansus lies on the south shore of Jobi Island, at 

 the head of a deep channel formed by various islands and coral- 



