CHAPTER II 
DISAPPOINTMENTS IN DUTCH 
NEW GUINEA 
Dutch New Guinea — The Coast — Unsavoury Mud-banks — 
Merauke—The Dutch Settlement described—Its Wonderful 
Modernity—A Fierce Tribe, the Tugeri, now described for the 
First Time—Their Appearance and Habits—Their Continual 
Murderous Raids— The Fearful Bamboo Knife — Scientific 
Work here impossible owing to Danger of going beyond 
Settlement Boundaries—Outbreak of a Mysterious Disease at 
Merauke—Its Swift Deadliness— The Symptoms — Deter- 
mine to leave Dutch New Guinea and prepare for a March 
into the Unexplored Interior. 
