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NEW OUINE^. 
narrative with attention mil find grounds for a contrary 
opinion. 
People of the mixed race are to be found in numbers 
on every inhabited island of the Moluccan Seas, but very 
rarely in New Guinea itself, a fact which is readily ex- 
plained by the eircumstanec of Papuan slaves, to the 
annual amount of hundreds and even thousands^ having 
been exported from New Guinea to the westward for agea 
past ; while scarcely an instance can be brought forward 
of a member of the brown race becoming even a tem- 
porary resident in New Guinea beyond the limits of the 
trading season, except in the case of the Mohammedan 
priest^j who take up their abode there occasionally for 
years together. And in cutertaining speculations on 
these points, it must always he taken into consideration 
that the Papuans are beyond all comparison superior in 
vigour, both mental and physical, to those tribes of the 
brown race with whom they are brought in contact. It will 
only be necessary farther to state that Mr. Bruijn Kops 
appears to be perfectly free from all ethnological theories ; 
and therefore the following description of the personal cha» 
ractcristics of the natives of Dory, must be looked upon aa 
a piece of unbiassed testimony. The translation here given 
is as close as the spirit of the two languages ^ill admit. 
" The population of New Guinea divides itself into Pa- 
poeers and Alfoeren, The firjit inhabit the shores^ and the 
latter the mountains and interior lands (binnenlandm.) 
Both these head-classes are divided into different tribes, 
who are generally in a state of hostility towards each 
other. The Papoeers of Dorj* are of the caste ' Jlyfory,' 
