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or two's work in finishing Bp the house, stopping leaks, 

 putting up our hanginj:^ slielves for drying specimens 

 inside and out, and making the path down to the water, 

 and a clear dry s]iace in front of the house. 



On the 17th, the steamer not having arrived, the coal- 

 sliip left, having lain here a month, according to her con- 

 tract ; and on the same day my hunters went out to shoot 

 for the first time, and hroufilit home a magnificent crown 

 pigeon and a few common birds. The next day they were 

 more successful, and I was delijjhtcd to see them return 

 with a Bird of Paradise in full plumage, a pair of the fine 

 Papuan lories (Lorins domicella), four other lories and 

 parroquets, a grackle (Gracula dunionti), a king-hunter 

 (Dacelo gaudichaudi), a racquet-tailed kingfisher (Tany- 

 siptera galatea), and two or three other birds of less beauty. 

 I went myself to visit the native village on the hill behind 

 Dorey, and took with me a small present of cloth, knives, 

 and beads, to secure the good-will of the chief, and get 

 him to send some men to catch or shoot birds for me. 

 The houses were scattered about among nidely cultivated 

 clearings. Two which I visited consisted of a central 

 passage, on each side of which opened short passages, ad- 

 mitting to two rooms, each of which %va3 a house accom- 

 modating a separate family. They were elevated at least 

 fifteen feet above the ground, on a complete forest of poles, 

 and were so rude and dilapidated that some of tbe small 

 passages had openings in the floor of loose sticks, through 

 which a child might fall. The inhabitants seemed rather 

 uglier than those at Dorey village. Tliey are, no doubt, 

 the true indigenes of this part of New Guinea, living in 

 the interior, and snbsistiii!;' by cultivation and bunting, 

 Tbe Borev men, on the other baud, are shore-dwellers, 

 fishers and traders in a small way, ajid liave tluis the 

 ehamctcr of a colony who have migrated from another 

 district. These liillmen or "Arfaks" dilTered much in 

 pliysieul features. They were genei-ally black, hut some 

 were brown like ilalays. Tlieir hair, though always more 

 or less frizzly, was sonietiniea short and matted, instead 

 of being long, loose, and woolly ; and tliis seemed to 1)0 a 

 eonstitutional diiffrence, not tlie ellect of care and cultiva- 

 tion. Nearly half of tht-m were afdicted with the scmfy 



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