Volume 14 Australasia - dana ward's homepage

—TOrOGEAPHY OF NEW GUINEA. 30-;T\'uigeu, although fertile and tliickly peopled, produces nothing for exportation.The natives, of mixed Malay and Papuan descent, are indolent, like all otherislanders for whom the sago tree yields a superabundance of food with little effortFig. 133.Waiqeu, Batanta, and Salwatt.Scale 1 : 1,500,000.250 Fathomsand upwards.on their part. In the interior there are no independent Alfuru tribes, and all theinhabitants recognise the rajah, who resides at Samsam, at the head of the inlet bywhich the island is nearly divided into two parts. The isthmus of Fak-Fakconnecting the two nearly equal sections is scarcely 200 feet high. But the mostX 2