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The only account that a mountain tribe in the interior of 
the Kabadi district could give of their faith was that their 
great spirit lived on the mountains and was called Oarova; he 
had a wife named Ooirova and they had a son called Kurorova. 
A native of Orokolo, a place at the head of the gulf of 
Papua, furnished the following particulars as to the beliefs of 
his tribe :— 
“The spirit. Kanitu made two men and two women who 
came out of the-earth. The name of the elder brother was 
Leleva and the younger Vovod; from them have sprung all 
mankind. This spirit lives in spirit- land on the mountains 
and when he visits a village he rests on the ridge of the tem- 
ple. He is represented in the temple in wicker- work ; there 
heis consulted and presents made to him.” 
In connection with this word Kanitu, or Kanidu, which by 
the way seems to have been adopted by the missionaries as a 
mode of translating the word Gop, it is noticeable that the 
word Sinitu, meaning a malevolent spirit, is found among cer- 
tain Malayan tribes, e.g., the islanders of Mantawe off the 
West Coast of Sumatra. See Journl. Ind. Arch., 1X, 287. 
As is the case with all of the larger eastern islands, the 
interior of New Guinea seems to be inhabited by aboriginal 
tribes who have been driven back to the hills by a robuster 
race now occupying the coast districts. While the latter are 
described as being in places as fair as South Sea Islanders, 
the former are cad to be black with woolly hair, beards aml 
moustaches, and are all cannibals. The physique of the people 
is found to improve as one travels eastward from Port Moresby, 
and Dufaure island is mentioned as the point of meeting of 
two races—one from the Kerepunu side and the other from 
the east. Both would seem to differ considerably from the 
Papuans of the Gulf. At South Cape the people are small 
and puny and much darker than the Eastern Polynesians. 
The houses of the natives are bmlt on piles, and in 
many places villages are found composed entirely of houses 
built in this way in shallow water on the sea-shore, com- 
munication being maintained between them by horizontal 
poles supported on perpendicular ones. Mr. Guiut des- 
eribes these as |“ Swiss-lake-lke villages ’’ in allusion, of 
