NARRATIVE AND ITINERARY 7 



A list of the localities visited follows : — 

 Buleleng, Bali Island. 

 Ampenan, Lombok Island. 

 Makassar, Celebes Island. 

 Tifu, Burn Island. 

 Lawui, Obi Island. 



Ambon or Amboina Island (town has same name). 

 Piru and Wahaai, Ceram Island. 

 Gane, Galela, Tobello, Ake-Selaka, Patani, and Weeda, on Halmahera 



Island. 

 Ternate, on island of same name. 

 Saonek, Waigiu Island. 



Manokwari and Humboldt's Bay, mainland of Papua. 

 Sorong, on a small island barely separated by a narrow strait from 



Papua. The same may be said of the islands Roon and Djamna. 



The other Papuan localities were Pom, Wool, and Ansus, on Jobi; 



and Meosbundi, on Wiak; both islands lying in Geelvink Bay, New 



Guinea. 



At the time this visit was made to Papua, conditions were quite different 

 from what they are even now. There were in all the vast region only three 

 posts, each with an Assistant Resident: — Merauke, in southwest New Guinea; 

 Fak Fak, in western New Guinea; and Manokwari, near Doreh on Geelvink 

 Bay. The three mission stations were in this latter region. At Sorong there 

 was a Posthouder, but I have heard that he has been withdrawn. Since this 

 voyage, however, a number of Dutch scientific parties have visited the country; 

 and with the recent increase in the number of voyages of the trading steamer 

 each year, the real primitive Papuan will in time disappear. British Papua, 

 for a long while ably administered, has now a considerable white population 

 of miners, planters, and traders. German New Guinea, or Kaiser Wilhelm's 

 Land, has, if nothing else, a full corps of officials of every sort. This latter region, 

 however, has proved a great disappointment as a colony, from every point of 

 view. Dutch New Guinea, lying nearer the equator than the rest of the island, 

 has a climate rather more unhealthy. It certainly has a vast area of low-lying 

 swampy land. As the white population grows, however, modern knowledge as 

 to the efficacy of drainage in combating malaria will undoubtedly make possible 

 fairly healthy towns along the coast. The English have shown what can be 



