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CHAPTER V. 
THE ARRU ISLANDS, 
CEJ5EBAL DESCBllT'ION OF THE GROUP — FOREIGN INTERCOURSE — 
SPIKED RACE OV THE TffE^TERN ISLA^ID* »UTCH CONNECTION WITH 
TBE ISLANDS RENEWED IN 1824 — LlEtrrEN'jtNT KOLrr's DESCRirTlOh' 
OP THE ISLANDERS — PECPI-rAB COMFLmXlCS OF THE ABRUAN«t THB 
KABRQOE ISLANDmaS — AGRICULTURE TREPANG AND PEARL 
FISHERIES NATIVE TE8SFJ.S ELEPHANTS* TCSKS AJfJ> PORCELAIN 
DISHES— SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE NATIVES OF TORKAV — MAR- 
RIAGE CUSTOMS — MODE OF SETTLING DIFFERENCES^ — FUNEREAL 
CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES — INTRODUCTION OF CBEISTIANITT AND 
MOHAMMEDANISM — IIIPOaTANOB OF VAJLTHEB. DETAILS m^gPECTINO 
THE AERVANS. 
This Aitu Islands are a closely paclted group, distant 
about sixty miles from the BOiith-west coast of New 
Guineaj and extending over a space of one hundred miles 
ill length j and between forty and fifty miles in breadth. 
On the eastern side of the group are found banka of 
eand and nuid, stretching far out to sea, which are only 
covered to the depth of a few feet at low tides. The 
trepangj or sea-slug, which, when cured, is an article of 
