PREFACE 
Heart Mission; Dr. Laws and the Rev. H. Dauncey 
of the London Missionary Society. 
The Dutch officials to whom I am under deep 
obligations are Mr. Kroesen, the Resident of Merauke, 
Mr. M. C. Schadee, the Controller, and also the 
captain of the gunboat eas. 
For permission to reprint the section on the 
Lakatois and several other passages I am indebted 
to the Wide World Magazmne, and the chapter on 
“British Trade Prospects in New Guinea” is given 
by consent of the Britesh Trade Journal. 
My particular acknowledgments are due to Messrs. 
G. H. Kendrick, Mr. G. T. Bethune Baker, F.LS., 
and Miss Wilmott, without whose help the expedition 
could not have been undertaken, and I must also 
mention Mr. 8. H. Soper, F.R.G.S., another friend 
whose interest and assistance was of the greatest value 
to me. 
A. EF, 
