CONTENTS 
Dandyism — The Priceless Chimani— The Shell Armlet— 
Household Constitution—Rudimentary Government—Court- 
ship and Marriage—The Price of a Wife—Position of Women 
—Six Ways of Carrying an Infant—Meal Times— Weapons— 
Clubs—Their Manufacture the poner of One Tribe—Weird 
Tribal Dances. i : » 289 
CHAPTER XVI 
BURIAL, WITCHCRAFT, AND OTHER THEMES 
A Short-lived Race—An Aged Man a Curiosity—Burial Customs— 
The Chief Mourner painted Black—Period of Mourning brief 
except for the Chief Mourner—No Belief in Natural Death— 
Poison always Suspected—Religion all but absent—Vague 
Belief in Magic—Fifi, a Form of Divination—How practised— 
Its Utter Childishness—No Idea of Number—Forest Warnings 
— “Wada,” another Form of Sorcery — Mavai’s Hideous 
Magical Compounds—A People seemingly without History 
or Legends—Pictures understood—Fear of the Stereoscope— 
The “ Bau-bau” or Social Pipe—How Made and Smoked— 
Incidents of Travel—The Stinging Trees—Ideas of Medicine 
—Sovereign Remedies—Bleeding—How practised—Hunting 
—The Corral—A Strange Delicacy—Story of Native Trust in 
Me—A Loan of Beads—Children and their Spee ie 
Ways of Cat’s-Cradle : : 309 
CHAPTER XVII 
A NOTE ON BRITISH TRADE! PROSPECTS IN 
NEW GUINEA 
Sandalwood—The Sea Slug—Copra and Cocoa-Nut—Coffee— 
Cocoa—Chillies —Rubber—Stock-Raising —Gold— Tobacco— 
Imports—German Enterprise—Our Lost Coaling Station «Bak 
CHAPTER XVIII 
NOTES ON SOME BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA 
The Birds of Paradise— Remarkable Species observed—Native 
Names — Play-Places — Curious Habits—The Bower-Bird : 
Artist, Architect, and Gardener ; : » 345 
APPENDICHS 0 OC OO ONES fe et 
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