DOUBGA STRAIT, 
nevertlieless Mr. Hugenholtz sa£Fered severely on account 
of his wound/** • 
This was a very unfortunate affair, which may lead to 
future bloodshed, aa the relatives or descendants of the 
slain will think it necessary for their own character to 
make a disturbance^ should they ever a^in have inter- 
course with strangers^ although the bulk of the tribe 
may he peacefully incLned. From Mr. Modera's clear 
account of the transaction, it evidently arose from a 
misunderstanding on the part of the natives^ who, seeing 
the boat shoving off with some of their eompaniona still 
on hoard, naturally supposed that it was intended to 
carry them off. Nearly every uncivilized tribe of the 
Archipelago must some time or other have lost members 
of its small community, either by force or treachery, to 
support the detestable traffic in human flesh introduced 
by Mohammedans, and, until very recently, fostered by 
Christians ; and the little experience these Papuans had 
of intercourse with strangers, scarcely enabled them to 
see the difference between civilized Europeans and the 
traders from Ceram and the Moluccas, who, it k to be 
feared, but too often complete their cargoes with the 
unfortunates they may capture, or entice on board, during 
their voyages along the Papuan coasts. 
Mr. Modera's account of the personal, characteristics of 
aocount of their employing it. The practice seems to he confined to 
those aboriginal tribes who use, or have used the aumpitan/or blow- 
pipe ; the little darts projected from this inatniment being iacapahle 
of effecting the destmctioB of any animal larger than a sparrow 
without the aid of & powerful poison. — ^G. W, E. 
♦ Modera, "Heize," &c., pp. 23—29. 
