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expeditions. It is the focus or capital of the Nufur 
Papuans, a people of some importance. The typical race 
has here become rather mixed, as at all trading centres. 
Westward of them live the Karons, a people who have 
been described—perhaps on hardly sufficient grounds— 
as of Negrito stock. The southern shores of Geelvink 
Bay are known as Wandammen, and are inhabited by a 
tall race of fine physique. On the coast opposite Jobi 
Island, which is called Tana Aropen by the Malays, the 
natives go quite naked. A little beyond, the Amberno 
Eiver debouches by numerous mouths, forming a very 
large delta. It was ascended in part by Mr. van Braam 
Morris, who reached shallow water sixty miles from the 
sea, and considered that the river is of no great size. 
It is probable that the main stream was not found, for 
the size of the delta, and the fact that the water is dis¬ 
coloured and brackish for some distance out to sea, 
render it probable that the river is really of large size. 
Humboldt Bay is the limit of Dutch territory on the 
north coast. It was visited by the Challenger on her 
celebrated voyage. The natives here are very little 
known, and untrustworthy. 
Keturning to the south side of the island, the most 
known and frequented part is the southern shore of 
MacCluer Inlet, where at Patippi and Segaar Bays a 
certain amount of Malay trade is carried on, and a rare 
Netherlands India steamer touches. South of the great 
Charles Louis range the country becomes fiat and marshy. 
Between Prince Frederick Henry Island and the British 
boundary are the headquarters of the Tugere tribe, who 
are the pirates of New Guinea, raiding in large expedi¬ 
tions, and keeping the people of a considerable extent of 
country in a perpetual state of terror. 
German New Guinea .—The remaining half of the 
