CONTENTS. 
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of the Body Omametita — Occupations— Pood and Lnsuries — 
Halntations and Household Gear— Arts mid Agricuiture— Arras and 
I in piemen t« — Navigatiom and Commerce— Character audi Dis|)ositi(jii 
—Government and La\vs — CustomSt Social and Beligious— The 
" Hongi," or Tidore Flotilla— Native* of Ruiii in the Great Bay^ 
Visit to a Papuan Family — Kurudu— A Deserted Village— Tlie 
Ambemo RlTer— Dutch Settlement at Uumholdt Bay . Oi 
CHAPTER V, 
THE ARKU ISLANDS. 
General Description of the Group— Foreign Intercourse — Mised Race of 
the Western Islands — Dutch Connection with the Islands Renewed 
Id 1824— Lieutenant Kolff^a Description of the Islanders— Peculiar 
Complexion of the AtTLtam— The KaUroor I&landeri— Agriculture— 
Trcpaiig and Pearl Fisheries — Native Vessels— Elephants' Tnsks and 
Porcelain Dishes — Sodal Condition of the Natives of York ay— Mar- 
riage Customs — Modeof Settling Difiereuoes — Funci'ed Customs and 
Cereihonies — Introduction of Christianity ami Mohammedanism — 
Importance of farther Details respecting the Arraaus . 93 
CHAPTER VI. 
CERAM AND THE MOLUCCAS. 
Mounts n Papuans^ — Jlixed Race on the Islands lying lietween Ceratn 
and New Guiuea^ — Remnants of the Papuan Race in Ceram— Con- 
dition in Ihe titne of Valentyn — The Waringin or Banyan-Tree of 
the Far East— Its Connection with the Early Histor)" of the Native 
Race* — Hopeless Condition of the Papuans in the Interior of Cerata 
— Former Power of the Maritime Papuans- Their Expeditions in 
the Neighbouring Seas — Adventure of a Papuan Rajah at Ter- 
tiate . . . . , . .112 
