154 G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



[1S97, 23] when ascending the Owen Stanley Range, came across some wild ones. According 

 to the expert Dr. HECK (HAGEN [1899, 195]) it is of the same race as ail other tropical 

 dogs, being characterised for its shyness and its bad qualities as a watchdog. Nevertheless some 

 dogs of Asé ventured to attack my watchdog (a streetdog from Batavia) which was bigger. 

 However, they only fight for their own benefit and not for their master and though they fly 

 into the houses when a European approaches, as soon as he enters they try to escape through 

 the back door. Far from being the favoured animal, like in British N. G. (PRATT [1906, 331]), 

 it is especially the men who ill-treat the dog; only too often the painful yelping of the dogs 

 after a severe punishment is heard from the dwellings. A Manîkion from Mapâr meeting a 

 dog on the notched trunk serving as a stair-case to his high dwelling (fig. 73), simply kicked 

 the animal down. Spécial dog-ladders and separate entrances sacred to the dogs (PRATT, 1. c), 

 I never saw. The women are more gentle in their behaviour; the dogs are more attached to them, 

 as also HAGEN [1899, 195, PL 25, 37] relates about K. W. Land, and are often to be found 

 in their company. The Manîkion women serving the expédition as bearers, took their dogs 

 with them on marches of several days and when wading through swamps and overcoming 

 other difficulties of the soil, put up with the trouble of taking the animais in their arms. 

 According to BlRO [1901, 54] it is also the women who cook the food for dogs and pigs in 

 the afternoon; I doubt, whether dogs are taken so much care of in Netherlands New Guinea 

 and I ascribe their thievishness that Finsch also speaks of, simply to hunger. At Asé they tried 

 to steal victuals from my tent, gnawed through the stretchers and even tried a plaster-cast; 

 they nibbled off the little flesh left in a cocoa-nut sliell, which had been thrown away and in 

 Oinâke Bay I watched them tearing out the remains of flesh from the carapaces ofbig Chelones, 

 lying on the beach and already spreading a bad smell. The dog multiplies as a domestic 

 animal and in the east part of New Guinea shares the fate of many domestic animais to be 

 butchered and eaten (FlNSCH [1888, 54], MACGREGOR [1897, 60], HAGEN [1899, 96]). As 

 stated above (page 2) this is not the case in Netherlands New Guinea and that is why the 

 animal does not enjoy the pleasure of being fattened. In Geelvink Bay De Clercq (De Clercq 

 and SCHMELTZ [1893, 115]) noticed dog skulls hanging beside boar jaws in the dwellings, but 

 he does not mention in which way the skulls had been got. None of the members of our 

 expédition remember to hâve seen dog skulls in the dwellings, but we often saw kangoroo skulls. 



The second domestic animal of the Papuan, the pi g, appears wild and is hunted and 

 eaten. Travelling with a large and sometimes very noisy troop of bearers, etc. we never 

 caught sight of a boar, though large spots of earth, freshly rooted up, clearly showed their 

 abundance. The way of hunting is very différent. The people of Adi (Van DER GOES [1858, 

 110]) lay snares in the gaps of the garden fences, but in the other parts of Netherlands New 

 Guinea I only know of battues, either, as in the western part, with dogs driving the boars 

 into a river, where they are shot with arrows when trying to swim across (De CLERCQ and 

 SCHMELTZ [1893, 113]), or, as in the eastern part, with human drivers. 



In 1901 Van ASBECK, Ofiïcer in H. M. „Ceram", witnessed such a battue, held by 

 about 80 people of Tobâdi and gave a description (Bulletin N°. 41), which shows how cauti- 

 ously they proceed. The organization was entirely in the hands of one man, the chief of 

 Tobâdi. First of ail, the ground as well as the hunters were charmed by an aged Papuan, so as 

 to make them invisible to the boars; then the chief ordered the line of hunters to the top, 



