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glossus cyanogrammus and Arses insularis) were shot, and a number of Gonra pigeons, 
cockatoos, and several other birds were noticed. The natives were quite friendly, and 
took a great interest in pointing out the birds and in watching the result of each shot. 
They did not seem to be greatly astonished at the report of the gun. As the pinnace 
returned to the ship a few women with short kilts were observed standing at the door of 
one of the pile-dwellings. 
Humboldt Bay, shaped somewhat like a crescent, is from 4 to 5 miles wide at its 
entrance between Points Caillie and Bonpland (the extreme points of the crescent), and 
perhaps 7 miles wide at its broadest part by about 4 or 5 miles deep. The bay 
Fig. 233.— The Village of Ungrau. in Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. 
is open to the northeast, and a heavy swell rolls in, which, whilst the Expedition was 
there, was breaking on the shores all round, with the exception of a small portion 
sheltered by Point Caillie. Point Caillie is a promontory about 500 feet high, jutting 
out to the S.S.E. from the mainland, to which it is joined by a low neck, and forming 
between it and a point 1-| miles to the southeastward a sheltered cove which was named 
Challenger Cove. In the southwestern part of Challenger Cove are two small islets ; 
the outer, uninhabited, was named Observation Islet, and the inner, on which is a 
settlement, Village Islet. Southwestward of these islets are some coral rocks with deep 
water between them. At the northeast end of Challenger Cove, on Point Caillie, is 
another village, off which the anchorage, appeared to be free from danger. One mile 
