LAST JOURNEY TO THE COAST
A Dangerous Stream-Crossing—Babooni—Sunshine once more—Successful
Work—Poor Fare—Messengers to Ekeikei—The Tree-Cabbage—Method of
Cooking Tree-Cabbage—A Great Curiosity—Spiders’ Webs as
Fishing-Nets—Dancing Festivals—Back to the Kebea—Our Bean Crop—A
Papuan Parliament—We obtain Credit—A Wife-Beater—My only Act of
Perfidy—The Journey to Ekeikei—Back to the Land of Plenty—Last
Visit to Epa—Mavai unfriendly—He is talked over and supplies
Carriers—Example better than Precept—The Coast again—An
Accident—The Natives drink Sea-Water—Good-bye to the
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