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and took them on board. He left his wife 

 ashore, however, who was pointed out to me at 

 the watering-place. She was of a rather lighter 

 colour than the rest, had a peculiar raised mark 

 down each breast, and was said to come from 

 Poorem, which, as far as I could make out, lay 

 somewhere to the south-west. There were several 

 other women, not natives of the island, but whether 

 they had come voluntarily or had been brought as 

 prisoners taken in war I could not learn. One was 

 said to come from Dowdee, which we afterwards 

 learnt was their name for the nearest part of the 

 coast of New Guinea. She differed from the rest 

 chiefly in colour, being of a light yellowish brown, 

 in the orifice through the septum narium, which was 

 very large and prominent, and in her scars or tattoo 

 marks, having figures on her breasts, shoulders, 

 and calves of the legs, the latter of which apparently 

 represented crocodiles. The women of Erroob are 

 not at all marked either by scars or by tattooing. 



On the afternoon of the 3rd, I walked by myself, 

 and apparently unarmed, having only a pistol in my 

 pocket, with a native man, named Warro, and a 

 boy, called Goua, round the eastern end of the island 

 to a village called Kaiderry, where I had not yet 

 been. Here I found several people whom we had 

 not seen, and who appeared quite delighted to see me. 

 I sat with them some time amusing them, by shew- 

 ing them my pocket telescope, compass, measuring 

 tape, and dog-whistle, and other things with which 



