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he consider it too little^ he seises his own property, and 
flies off with it with equal haste, never returning a 
second time to the same person.^^* 
No decided Papuans have yet been foand on the 
islands lying between Timor and the Arru Islands, and 
certainly none exist in the Serwatty Islands at the present 
day; hut there is a tribe inhabiting the interior of Timor- 
Laut, which, from the accounts given hy the natives of 
the coast, may prove to be of the woolly-haired race. 
Every community of mountain Papuans, regarding 
whose existence satisfactory evidence can be produced, 
has now been noticed ; but it is still possible that rem- 
nants of tribes may yet be found in some of the islands 
whose interior continues to be a terra inwgnita. The 
reports of the coast inhabitants of these islands con- 
cerning the wild tribes of the interior are generally very 
unsatisfactory J and the former are apt sometimes to 
temper their information, in order to make it pleasing to 
the inquirer, if they happen to be aware of the object 
of his researches. The islands in which remnants of 
Papuan tribes may yet be found are Suraba or Sandal- 
wood Island, Burn, the Xnlla Islands, and the small 
eastern peninsula of Celebes, which terminates at Cape 
Taliabo. Sumha is a mountainous island, three hundred 
mUes in circumference, lying to the south of Flores, from 
the coast of which it is distinctly visible in clear weather. 
The inhabitants of Savu possess a settlement near the 
south-west extreme of the island, and the Bughis traders of 
Ende have two or three small stations on the north coast 
♦ " Notices," fee, p. 8. 
