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This book contains an account of the murder of four native 
teachers and the wives and children of two of them in 1881, 
and of the murder of Dr. James and Mr. THornGeEEN, with 
allusions to other outrages. And it is not difficult to gather 
from Mr. Cuaumers’ unvarnished narrations of his various 
journeys that difficuities and dangers which he successfull 
surmounted might, in the case of one not gitted with equal 
coolness and courage, have given occasion for bloodshed, and 
consequently for permanent hostility with a revengeful people. 
His knowledge and influence will, no doubt, be most useful to 
those charged with the administration of the Protectorate , and 
if is to be hoped that le may, at some future, time be able to 
give to the world fuller de tails about New Guinea than those 
contained in this unpretending volume, which has apparently 
been compiled in England, in his absence, from some of his 
journals and papers. IIl- dig ested, as information communi- 
cated in this way must necessarily be, it is sufficient to enable 
the reader to admit, with the author of the introduction, that 
Mr. Cuatmers has combined the qualities of missionary and 
explorer in a remarkable degree, and has added enormously to 
the stock of our geographical knowledge of New Guinea, and 
to Our accurate acquaintance with the ways of thinking, the 
habits, superstitions, and moae of life of the various tribes of 
natives, 
Wi ve, 
