CHAPTER XIII 
LAST JOURNEY TO THE COAST 
A Dangerous Stream-Crossing—Babooni—Sunshine once more 
—Successful Work—Poor Fare—Messengers to Ekeikei—The 
Tree-Cabbage—Method of Cooking Tree-Cabbage—A Great 
Curiosity—Spiders’ Webs as Fishing-Nets—Dancing Festivals 
—Back to the Kebea—Our Bean Crop—A Papuan Parliament 
—We obtain Credit—A Wife-Beater—My only Act of Perfidy— 
The Journey to Ekeikei—Back to the Land of Plenty—Last 
Visit to Epa—Mavai unfriendly—He is talked over and supplies 
Carriers—Example better than Precept—The Coast again—An 
Accident—The Natives drink Sea-Water—Good-bye to the 
Mountaineers. 
