CHAPTER VIII 
INACTION AND AN EXCURSION 
Period of Inaction at Port Moresby—Christmas in New Guinea 
—A Scratch Dinner—A Christmas Privilege for Cingalese to 
obtain Spirits—Curious Effect on One Individual—A Note- 
worthy Character—An Excursion to Hula—A Fisher Com- 
munity—A Piebald People—Picturesque Night Fishing by 
Flare Light—Fishermen often Killed by Gare-fish—Hula 
Houses—Various Traits of Native Life—A Walk round Hood’s 
Bay—tTraces of Initiatory Rites at Kalo—The Kalo Houses 
described—On to Kerapuna—-A Shooting Expedition—We lose 
the Trail—Class Distinctions at Kerapuna—Return to Port 
Moresby by Sea—A Perilous Voyage in a Little Canoe— 
Tragic Death of Flood, the Naturalist. 
