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... Port Moresby and a few coastal trading houses , white penetration had hardly begun and the natives were regarded , not without reason , as ferocious and anthropo- phagous savages . It is rather strange to think that the largest island ...
... Port Moresby and a few coastal trading houses , white penetration had hardly begun and the natives were regarded , not without reason , as ferocious and anthropo- phagous savages . It is rather strange to think that the largest island ...
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... Port Moresby . The party con- sisted of Uhlmann , Brandt , his assistant , a botanist named , I think , Friedrichs , a young German naval officer , Lieutenant Mann , Captain Ferguson , his No. 1 , a Queenslander by the name of Morris ...
... Port Moresby . The party con- sisted of Uhlmann , Brandt , his assistant , a botanist named , I think , Friedrichs , a young German naval officer , Lieutenant Mann , Captain Ferguson , his No. 1 , a Queenslander by the name of Morris ...
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... Port Moresby district since we had been told that the population round the Government Station at Mekeo , from where we were starting , were very far from reliable , and the idea was to sail them up the coast in the Hermine which would ...
... Port Moresby district since we had been told that the population round the Government Station at Mekeo , from where we were starting , were very far from reliable , and the idea was to sail them up the coast in the Hermine which would ...
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