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of the Military Exploration, had signalled from one of the highest tops of this range, baptized 



in his honour "Doorman-top", the well-peopled valleys behind. Our expédition went on his 



tracks and was the first that met with thèse central tribes. They never before had seen a 



European and there was hardly any communication with Papuans of the plain. Not a single 



bit of iron, nor the smallest pièce of cloth had found its way to this virginal country. Almost 



needless to say that they were little men, and nobody was surprised, when HuBRECHT said 



that they were just like the Pese- 



gem, he had seen seven years 



before. They appeared to call them- 



selves Timorini. The members of 



our expédition lived among them 



for nearly six weeks ; we made the 



acquaintance of some hundreds of 



men ; but to march throughout the 



country with its many thousands 



of inhabitants was not reserved 



for us, we had to leave that to 



the second expédition, one year 



Jater. 



Before I went to New-Guinea 

 I had spent five years in the Dutch- 

 Indies and besides Javanese and 

 Chinese I had met with différent 

 Malay and Indonesian tribes. But 

 I had never seen the "black" in- 

 habitants of the Australian part of 

 the Dutch Colonies, before the 

 expédition entered into the mag- 

 nificent Doreh-Bay, the harbour of 

 Menoekwari, résidence of the Rési- 

 dent of Dutch New-Guinea. Re- 

 membering that this town is situ- 

 ated at the Geelvink-Bay, on the 

 North-Western part of the island, 



called the „Bird's Head", you won't be surprised that the tall, hook-nosed Papuans were 

 not to be seen. But what I saw was still very remarkable. The Mongolian élément had totally 

 disappeared. I saw dark-skinned frizzly-haired "negroes", or at least negroïd-looking people, 

 in their countenance totally différent from the Malay. Their stature seemed to be rather 

 small. My second acquaintance with the Papuans was at "Pioneer-bivouac", the base of our 

 expédition, situated on the Mamberamo, at about hundred miles from the coast. The three 

 tribes that visited us there were practically independent and at least one of them was „wild" 

 in the full sensé of the word. Photo I will be fairly convincing. Those Mamberamo-men 

 who certainly must be called inland-people and hâve but seldom any communication with 



Fig. I. Mambeiamo-Papuan (Pioneer-bivouac). 



