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clouds, formed the daily programme. With the exception 

 that it was never cold, it was just such weather as a very 

 bad English November or February. 



The people of Waigiou are not truly indigenes of the 

 island, which possesses no " Alfuros," or aboriginal in- 

 habitants. They appear to be a mixed race, partly from 

 Gilolo, partly from New Guinea. Malays and Alfuros 

 from the former island have probably settled here, and 

 many of them have taken Papuan wives from Salwatty or 

 Dorey, while the influx of people from those places, and 

 of slaves, has led to the formation of a tribe exhibiting 

 almost all the transitions from a nearly pure Malayan to 

 an entirely Papuan type. The language spoken by them is 

 entirely Papuan, being that which is used on all the coasts 

 of Mysol, Salwatty, the north-west of New Guinea, and the 

 islands in the great Geelvink Bay, — a fact which indicates 

 the way in which the coast settlements have been formed. 

 The fact tliat so many of the islands between New Guinea 

 and the Moluccas— such as Waigiou, Gueb^ Poppa, Obi, 

 Batchian, as well as the south and east peninsulas of 

 Gilolo— possess no aboriginal tribes, but are inhabited by 

 people who are evidently mongrels and wanderers, is a 

 remarkable corroborative proof of the distinctness of the 

 Malayan and Papuan races, and the separation of the 

 geographical areas they inhabit. If these two great races 

 were direct modifications, the one of the other, we should 



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