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and Chinese traders of Macassar, Singapore, and 
Ternate — for the scarlet, blue, and white cottons 
and calicoes of the Dutch and English looms, for 
the yellow-handled hoop-iron knives, which form 
the universal small change of these regions, and 
for beads, glass balls, knobs of amber, old keys, 
scraps of iron, and worthless but gaudy Brum- 
magem manufactures. At certain seasons it is 
quite a rich zoological garden. Here may often 
be seen in captivity birds of paradise of species 
never yet seen alive anywhere else out of their 
own lands, parrots, lories, cockatoos, crowned 
pigeons, cassowaries, tree-kangaroos, and other 
animals which have managed to survive a journey 
thus far, but rarely farther west. 
Leaving the same evening, on the 8th we 
steamed up the inlet which almost cuts off the 
head of New G-uinea, save for a narrow neck of 
about five miles, between high lands on either 
shore, under which a procession of curiously 
shaped, abrupt -sided inlets ran as far as we 
sailed. The natural feature# of Macluer Bay are 
perhaps the most striking of any I have yet 
witnessed. 
We lay about three miles off from the village, 
from which cargo was to be taken in, and as 
soon as we had anchored the natives crowded 
