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MOUN'TAIN PAPUANS. 
CHAPTER YI. 
CERAM AND THE MOLUCCAS. 
CERAM AND SJEW QDtKEA — »,EMKA1*TS OP THE PAPSTA>r RACE IK 
CBOAH COKttlTTON IN THE TIME OP VALKTrnrK THE WARINOIK OR 
BANYAN.TBEE OW THE FAR EAST ITS COrTNECTlON WITH THE EARLT 
HISTORY OP THE NATIVE RACES HOPELESS CONDITION OF THE 
PAPUAN'S IK THE INTERIOR OP CERAM —FORMER POWER OF THE 
MARITtME PAPUANS TREtR EXPEmTlOKS IK THE KEIOHDOURIKO 
SEAS ADTRKTURE OP A PAPUAN KAJAH AT TERKATK. 
WiTHm the geographical limits of the Indian Arcbi- 
pelagOj tbc Papuans only appear as inhabitants of the 
sea-coast in New Guinea and the islands immediately 
adjacent. In other parts of this region tbey are found 
only among the mountain fastnesses, maintaining an 
unequal struggle vrith the brown races by whom they are 
surrounded. In some of the Spice Islands, the group 
nearest to New Guinea, "their extirpation is matter of 
history," as observed by Mr. Crawfurd in his valuable 
" History of the Indian Archipelago/'* In Ceram and 
• Vol, J, p, 18. 
