Items related to New Guinea, what I did and what I saw Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...and is not at all prognathous. The colour of his skin is rather dark, and on the whole he differs so much from all the Moatta men I have known, that he could never be confounded with them. The woman, on the contrary, calls for no particular remark; she is not to be distinguished from the women of Moatta. She is, however, tattooed in the centre of the chest, between the breasts, with a design like a capital A. At Moatta I never saw either men or women tattooed. I observed that a little girl, seven or eight years old, had the lobe of one ear drawn out like the men at Moatta, and that a piece of wood of a peculiar shape, A Crocodile. 199 that I had never seen before, was fastened to it. This I obtained for a piece of tobacco. Subsequently eight individuals from the same village came close to the " Neva," but they only stayed a few minutes. I observed that they greatly resembled each other, and were all equally unlike the inhabitants of Moatta. Being under no obligation to give away tobacco for bananas and nuts only, I contrived to obtain some articles in exchange for it which, at first, the natives had refused to sell; and to-day I bought some pieces of a large sea-shell, which, sharpened at one end, and fixed into a handle, serve as spades. October 16th.--Bob killed a small crocodile to-day. I am keeping its skin in spirits. The flesh was very white, and felt as I handled it like the flesh of a large fish. Some natives brought me a turtle; the flesh was also very white, perhaps because it was young. I took it into my head to play a trick on Wilcox and Bob, who had gone ashore. The Chinese cook and I roasted the crocodile and boiled the turtle. When dinner-time came, Bob and Wilcox found the roast meat much better than the boiled, and preferred it; b...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231159464
- ISBN 13 9781231159460
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages102
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