NARRATIVE OF THE CRUISE. 
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To express affirmation, the natives jerk the head up, as at Fiji. Negation is expressed 
by a most extraordinary and peculiar method : the nose is struck on its side by the 
extended forefinger of the right hand, the motion being as if the tip of the nose were to be 
cut or knocked off. This sign was invariably used to express refusal of proffered barter, or 
.that a native had not got some article asked for. It is capable of various modifications : 
the quick decided negative is given by a smart quick stroke on the nose ; in the doubtful, 
hesitating negative, the finger dwells on its way, and is rubbed slowly across the nose. 
The men average about 5 feet 5 inches in height, and the women about 5 feet 1 inch. 
They contrast at once with the natives of Humboldt Bay, in being far thinner and lankier. 
Three men who were weighed, averaged only nine stone (127 lbs.) in weight. Only one 
native was observed that was at all fleshy, although such were not uncommon at Humboldt 
Bay. Food is perhaps not so abundant here as on the New Guinea coast, and the natives 
have not, like the natives there, the advantage of bows and arrows to kill game with. 
Measurements in inches of Natives of the Admiralty Islands, taken by the late 
R. von Willemoes Suhm, being of Natives of Wild Island, except those of 
Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, which were taken on board the ship by R. von Willemoes Suhm 
and H. N. Moseley. 
Height. 
Breadth. n 
Arm 
Length. 
Leg 
Length. 
Foot 
Length 
Hand 
Length. 
Nose 
Length, 
Forehead 
Length. 
Ear 
Length 
Breasts 
. Length. 
1 
f 1. Old woman ; 40 years (circa)., . 
60 
15 
28 
10 
7 
7 
1 
Young girl ; 15 years (circa), . 
61 A 
15 
25 
33 
94 
15 
24 
! 3. 
i W oman of mean size, older than 2, 
60 
12 
25 
9 
65 
2 
3 
64 
4. 
Old woman, 
63 
10 
8 
1 
Mean, 
61 
14 
26 
33 
94 
74 
2 
3 
24 
6| 
Mouth 
Width. 
Weight 
in lbs. 
fl. 
Young man, 
67 
16 
29 
37 
94 
7 
2 
2 
n 
2| 
2. 
Adult, 
63 
18 
28 
35 
104 
7 
25 
3 
2 1 
3. 
Adult, 
63 
174 
274 
34 
94 
2 
24 
H 
... 
4. 
Adult, . . 
66 
174 
284 
... 
5. 
Oto, 1 . . . . | 
67 
174 
6. 
Adult, 
64| 
7. 
Adult, .... 
63 
9| 
122 
8. 
Adult (photographed), 
624 
17i 
274 
33| 
10* 
8 
15 
3 
3 
3 
133 
9. 
Young, . . 
66f 
16 
27 
34 
10 
74 
2 
3§ 
126 
Mean, 
64| 
17f 
28 
34f 
H 
2 
3 
3 
3 
127 
1 The Chief of Wild Island. 
