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used as a look-out station. A small village, and the 
people bad. About two months ago the chief mur- 
dered a man and a boy close to our yesterday's camp. 
We heard of five other recent murders. There is a 
lunatic here, the first and only lunatic we saw in New 
Guinea. We sent an armed native to call Foula to 
our aid for carrying.” 
Notes oN AMANA AND THE TREE-HOUSE 
Amana was a most peculiar village, and like Yo-ya-ka 
was built on an extremely narrow ridge, so narrow 
indeed that we could not pitch our fly-tent there, but 
slept in a house the front part of which overhung a 
precipice. The house commanded a most lovely view 
far away into the valley, the slopes of which were 
covered with dense wood. We could see the river 
flashing at intervals through the greenery ; it must at 
least have been 1500 feet below us, but the roar of the 
torrent came up to us with great distinctness. As we 
approached Amana our carriers suddenly put down all 
their loads and would not enter. On being asked why, 
they said that some time before the chief of Amana 
had killed one of their people. 
We went in and made the acquaintance of this 
worthy. He was rather a personable character, quite 
bald, and with a very noble forehead, but, like most of 
the more degraded aborigines, he could not look the 
white man in the face. On hearing of our approach 
he became frightened and retreated to a tree-house, 
one of the most remarkable curiosities which we saw 
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