DISAPPOINTMENTS 
an exhaustive account of the negotiations between 
the British and Dutch authorities for the suppres- 
sion of these outrages and the indemnification of suf- 
ferers. In 1896 Sir William Macgregor undertook 
a punitive expedition against the Tugeri, and at the 
time believed that he had finally driven them out of 
British territory ; but during a murderous raid on the 
Sanana tribe, shortly before 1900, many persons were 
killed and carried away. ‘The chief result of the 
negotiations, apart from the settlement of indemnity 
and the undertaking of search for missing persons, 
was the Dutch decision to appoint a resident official 
for that part of their territory which adjoins the 
British possessions. Hence the establishment of the 
Merauke Settlement, and the appointment of Mr. 
Kroesen to take charge of it. The Netherlands 
Government has guaranteed a special sum for the 
administration of Merauke, and the Dutch officers 
there have also been authorised to correspond directly 
with the British officers in the western division on 
matters requiring their mutual attention, instead of, as 
the Blue Book says, ‘“‘ by the circumlocutory channels 
of their respective Governments.” 
My opportunities for observing the Tugeri were, 
therefore, necessarily limited, but I am, I believe, the 
first person who has made any study of this remarkable 
tribe, and, as far as | am aware, they have remained 
hitherto undescribed. They are a very numerous 
people, inhabiting a tract of country extending as 
far west as the Marianne Strait, and as far east 
as the Fly River at longitude 141°. Inland their 
boundaries are unknown, but it is probable that they 
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