INACTION AND AN EXCURSION
Period of Inaction at Port Moresby—Christmas in New Guinea—A
Scratch Dinner—A Christmas Privilege for Cingalese to obtain
Spirits—Curious Effect on One Individual—A Noteworthy Character—
An Excursion to Hula—A Fisher Community—A Piebald People—
Picturesque Night Fishing by Flare Light—Fishermen often Killed
by Gare-Fish—Hula Houses—Various Traits of Native Life—A Walk
round Hood’s Bay—Traces of Initiatory Rites at Kalo—The Kalo
Houses described—On to Kerapuna—A Shooting Expedition—We lose
the Trail—Class Distinctions at Kerapuna—Return to Port Moresby
by Sea—A Perilous Voyage in a Little Canoe—Tragic Death of
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