all tbisj because the familiarity with which I was treated 
astonished me, and gave rae a very favourable opinion of 
these peoi>le. The furniture of the house was in general 
the same aa at Doiy, and consisted in pots, cups of 
earthenware, the same kind of cushions, only smaller, 
a Javanese wooden chest, wooden platters, a wooden 
mortar for husking grain, baskets, hampers and mats, a 
tifa (small drum), carved eitemally, bows, arrows, lances, 
and some fishing gear/^* 
Kurudu, an important station at the north-eastern 
extreme of the Great Bay, which is here more than 200 
miles across, was also visited, probably for the first time 
by an European vessel ; but as this part of New Guinea 
lies beyond the geographical limits assigned to the present 
volume, and the inhabitants will have to be described in 
that which treats on the Papuans of the Pacific, a mere 
cnrsoiy notice must suffice at present. The Dutch were 
received at Kurudu (which is situated on an island atlja- 
cent to the main land) with caution, but by no means in 
an unfriendly manner, although it seems that the village 
had been destroyed, and more than two hundred of the 
inhabitants carried away into slavery, only a few years 
before, by the Singaji of Gcby, a dependant of the Sultan 
of Tidore, The natives appeared armed on the beach, as 
the boat of the ^ Circe' approached, hut their weapons 
were soon laid aside, and they showed every token of 
a friendly feeling, accompanying the surgeon, Mr. 
Schneider, during his excursion in search of shells and 
botanical specimens, and assisting him to the best of their 
ability. 
* Bniija Kops, " Tijdschriff," p. 201. 
