DISAPPOINTMENTS IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA
Dutch New Guinea—The Coast—Unsavoury Mud-banks—Merauke—The Dutch
Settlement described—Its Wonderful Modernity—A Fierce Tribe, the
Tugeri, now described for the first time—Their Appearance and
Habits—Their Continual Murderous Raids—The Fearful Bamboo Knife—
Scientific Work here impossible owing to Danger of going beyond
Settlement Boundaries—Outbreak of a Mysterious Disease at
Merauke—Its Swift Deadliness—The Symptoms—Determine to leave
Dutch New Guinea and prepare for a March into the Unexplored
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