Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals

Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals - A Naturalist’s Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea

This record of two years scientific work in the only country of the globe that has still escaped exploration purposely avoids the dry detail of a Natural History Report, such as might properly be submitted to a learned society, and is intended rather to set forth to the general reader the vicissitudes of the travellers daily life in unknown New Guinea, or Papua as I prefer to call it. Every hour brought a new interest, and it was with the intention of trying to communicate some impression of that wonderful land in which we sojourned, that the present account has been undertaken. If the result is disappointing to the reader, the fault must lie with the writer and not with Papua. During my brief residences in the known parts of New Guinea, I received much kind assistance and furtherance in my marches into the wilds from officials, missionaries, and settlers, and I would here especially acknowledge my indebtedness to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. G. Ruthven Le Hunte, Mr. A. Musgrave, C.B., Captain Barton, the Hon. D. Ballantine, Mr. Robert Hislop, and Mr. James Wood; His Grace Archbishop Navarre, Coadjutor Bishop de Boismenu, both of the Sacred 8Heart Mission; Dr. Laws and the Rev. H. Dauncey of the London Missionary Society. The Dutch officials to whom I am under deep obligations are Mr. Kroesen, the Resident of Merauke, Mr. M. C. Schadee, the Controller, and also the captain of the gunboat Neas. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66773
Author: Pratt, Henry [Annotator]
Release Date: Nov 19, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Pratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar), 1852-1924