Port dory. 
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and Lis information is the more valuable, from the oppor* 
tunitics afforded him, through the medium of the native 
interpreters attached to the Expedition, for obtaining 
correct particulars, and from the humane and considerate 
feeling which he has evidently brought to the task,* 
This officer had also the assistance of Mr. C. F» A. 
Schneider, the surgeon to the Expedition, the value 
of whose contributions are gratefully acknowledged by 
him. 
The north-western peninsula of Kew Guinea is said to 
be well peopled towards the interior, but the coasts ap" 
pear to be quite deserted, except at a few points where 
small trading stations have become established ; for one 
of the leading characteristics of Papuans generally, and 
of those of New Guinea in particular, consists in their 
ardent desire to obtain the manufactures of foreign 
countries, however great may be the risks they undergo 
in gratifying this propensity. Port Dory, near the 
north-eastern extreme of this tract, has been its chief 
trading port from time immemorial ; and although the 
native inhabitants caunot be brought forward as a type 
of Papuans J yet, on account of their present condition, 
they are exceedingly well calculated to display the result 
of intercourse with more civilized races. Several voyagers 
of high authority have suspected that the Dorians are of 
a mixed race, but those who peruse Mr. Bruiju Kops' 
• A foil translation of Lieutenant Bniijn Kops narrative will 
be found m the "Journal of the ludiaa Ajdupelago " for June, 
m2. . . 
