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Waigeu, although fertile and thickly peopled, produces nothing for exportation. 

 The natives, of mixed Malay and Papuan descent, are indolent, like all other 

 islanders for whom the sago tree yields a superabundance of food with little effort 



Fig. 133. — Waigeu, Batanta, and Salwaty. 

 Scale 1 : 1,500,000. 



Easb cF Greenwich I50°20 



13I'40- 



Oto50 

 Fathoms. 



Depths. 



50 to 250 

 Fathoms. 



250 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



. 36 Sliles. 



on their part. In the interior there are no independent Alfuru tribes, and all the 

 inhabitants recognise the rajah, who resides at Samsam, at the head of the inlet by 

 which the island is nearly divided into two parts. The isthmus of Fak-Fak 

 connecting the two nearly equal sections is scarcely 200 feet high. But the most 



