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NEW GUINEA. 



[chap. XXXIV. 



fishers and traders in a small way, and have thus the 

 character of a coiouj wliu have migrated from another 

 district. These hillmen or " Arfaks " differed much in 

 physical features. They were generally black, but some 

 were brown like Malays. Their hair, though always more 

 or less frizzly, was sometimes short and matted, instead 

 of being long, loose, and woolly ; and this seemed to be a 

 constitutional difference, not the effect of care and cultiva- 

 tion. Nearly half of them were afflicted with the scurfy 

 skin-disease. The old chief seemed much pleased with 



his present, and promised 

 (through an interpreter I 

 brought with me) to pro- 

 tect my men when they 

 came there shooting, and 

 also to procure me some 

 birds and animals. While 

 conversing, they smoked 

 tobacco of their own grow- 

 ing, in pipes cut from a 

 single piece of wood with 

 a long upright handle. 



We had arrived at Do- 



rey about the end of the 



wet season, when the whole country was soaked with 



moisture. The native paths were so neglected as to be 



f.^ 



PAPUAN PIPE. 



