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NEW GUINEA, 
CHAPTER IV. 
NEW GUINEA, NORTH COAST. 
EARLY VOYAGSRS TO TUH NOHTJI COAST OF XEW GUIXEA — DOTCB 
BXPBDmOKT or 1850 — characteristics of the dory PAPtlASfS— 
DBXSS SCARIFICATIONS OF TUB BODY — ORKAMENTS — OCCUFATIONa 
—FOOD ANB LI^XORIES HABITATIQ^^a AND HOnSEQOLD GEAR — ' 
ARTS AND AGRICtTLTCfRt: — ARMS AND ISiPLKMBNTS NAVtGATlOJf 
AK© COMMKllCE—CIIARACrER AKD DISPOSITION — GOVERXMENT AND 
LAWa— CUSTOMS, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS — 'THE '* HONGI," OE 
TIDORE FLOTILLA — NATIVES OF RUN, IN TH1E GUaAT BAY — VIS IT TO 
A PAPUAN FAMILY — ^KURUDU — A. DESERTED VILLAGE THE AlCSERUO 
aiVER-^DUTCH SETTLEMENT AT HUMBOLDT BAY. 
The inhabitants of the north coast of New Guinea 
have been known to Europeans from the earliest period of 
their intercourse with the Indian Archipelago. In the 
year 1511, J>\\breu and Serranno^ who had been dis- 
patched to the Spice Islands by illbuquerquej the con- 
queror of JIalacea, brought back accounts of their having 
met with individiiala of a race totally different fx-om the 
Malayans; and in 1527, Alvaro de Saavedra made the 
first recorded visit to the island^ which was then named 
" Nova Guinea/* from a resemblance that the inhabitants 
were thought to bear to those of the coast of Guinea in 
