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country," it continues, " cannot without admiration see 

 what has been accomplished by the veteran members of 

 the mission. So far as one can judge, the Papuan has 

 not, as yet, been deeply impressed by the truths of the 

 Gospel. To religious fervour they are strangers. They 

 cannot be said to be devotees of the Church, or to be 

 otherwise than indifferent to her teaching. But if 

 striking outward manifestation of the working of religious 

 feeling be rare among those under the influence of the 

 mission, it can be said without reserve that the labours 

 of the missionaries have to such an extent modified the 

 ways of thinking and the social relations of the natives, 

 that the good they have done is incalculably great." 



Missionary enterprise is not so manifest in the German 

 territory, but the Wesleyans have 3 European and nearly 

 5 Fijian workers in Kew Britain and New Ireland, each 

 with a station of his own, and there are said to be 

 numerous converts. Missionaries of the Order of the 

 Sacred Heart are also working in the Gazelle Peninsula. 



9. Political Divisions. 



Dutch New Guinea. — The extent of the dominion of 

 the Sultan of Tidor in ancient times has already been 

 mentioned. The submission of that monarch to the 

 Dutch gave the latter the suzerainty of the " Eaja 

 Ampat," or the " territory of the Four Eajas." This 

 included a large part of "Western New Guinea, the exact 

 boundaries of which were undefined. Eventually the 

 141st parallel of east longitude came for a time to be 

 accepted as the limit. In 1893 the boundary was 

 further altered. Starting from the mouth of the 

 Reusbach Eiver in 141° l' 48", this longitude is followed 

 to the Fly River. The boundary then follows the Fly 



