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time of the discovery in 1873, its double row of huts, shaded by cocoanut palm- 

 groves, had as many as eight hundred industrious inhabitants occupied with 

 agriculture, trade, and pottery, and doing a large traffic with the villages along 



Fig. 135. — Poet-Moresby. 

 Scale 1 : 100,000. 



^•^J^,,-{1 



L^sb oPbreenwich 



1^6 °26 



146" 29 



Depths. 



Reefs and sands exposed 

 at low water. 



to 32 

 Feet. 



32 to 80 

 Feet. 



. 2 Miles. 



80 Feet and 

 upwards. 



the north-west coast, which took the excellent Port-Moresby earthenware in 

 exchang-e for sago. 



Since that time the native town has considerably increased in size, while the 



