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NEir GUINEA. 



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the craft, they are tilled with water and kept sunk for a time, in 

 order to counteract the tendency to split. They are outrigged 



CYPKIPEDIUM GAKDINERI. 



almost without exception on one side only, and though the out- 

 riggers are but clumsily constructed as compared with those of the 

 Dorei Bay people, the Ansus men are much more given to adorning 

 their boats than their western neighbours. Bits of red and white 



