Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age to Day in Dutch New Guinea |
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Page viii - Readers at home as are more desirous of a Plain and Just Account of the true Nature and State of the Things Described, 128 XIX (February, 1696/7), 426. 12«XX (September, 1698), 339. than of a Polite and Rhetorical Narrative: I hope all the Defects in my Stile, will meet with an easy and ready Pardon.
Page 123 - ... carved, and painted much like a dolphin (and perhaps other figures); these they let down into the water by a line with a small weight to sink it; when they think it low enough, they haul the line into their boats very fast, and the fish rise up after this figure, and they stand ready to strike them when they are near the surface of the water.
Page 296 - a Negritic race side by side with the Papuan race nobody has been able to discover just because it does not exist, and it does not exist because the Papuan race, in spite of its variability, is on the one hand a uniform race, and on the other as good as identical with the Negritos
Page 296 - Choo, and even in the south-east portion of Japan, it reveals its former existence by the traces it has left in the present population. That it has contributed considerably to form the population of New Guinea is unquestionable. In many parts of that great island, small, round-headed tribes live more or less distinct from the larger and longer-headed people who make up the bulk of the population.
Page 81 - But there were times even in the wet weather when the rain poured down during the day and at night the heavens were clear. One of these times fortunately occurred in May, when Halley's Comet was approaching the earth. On May 9 the comet, looking like a muffled star, was seen in the East, and its tail, a broad beam of brilliant light, extended upwards through about thirty degrees. Below the comet and a little to the south of it Venus shone like a little moon, appearing far bigger than any planet I...
Page 159 - The most remarkable thing about them is the case " that each man wears, his only article of clothing ; it is " made of a long yellow gourd, about two inches in " diameter at the base and tapering to about half an inch " at the pointed end. It is worn with the pointed end " upwards and is kept in position by a string round the " waist. As the length of the case — some of them " measure more than fifteen inches — is more than a It " quarter of the height of the man himself, it gives him " a most...
Page 294 - The Aeta live in the mountainous districts of the larger islands, and in some of the smaller islands of the Philippines...
Page viii - ... and Descriptions of Things are dry and jejune, not filled with variety of pleasant Matter, to divert and gratify the Curious Reader. How far this is true, I must leave to the World to judge. But if I have been exactly and strictly careful to give only True Relations and Descriptions of Things (as I am sure I have ;) and if my Descriptions be such as may be of use not only to...
Page 199 - ... ie, the unsplit end, with his foot. Then, having unwound about a yard of the rattan, he holds the coil in one hand and the free end in the other and looping the middle of it underneath the stick at the point where the tinder is placed, he proceeds to saw it backwards and forwards with extreme rapidity. In a short space of time, varying from ten to thirty seconds, the rattan snaps and he picks up the stick with the tinder, which has probably by this time begun to smoulder and blows it into a flame....
Page 135 - Papuans* quotes an account of a boar sacrifice at which there was what seemed at first an alarming incident : A three-year-old child painted red and crying loudly, had been roughly seized and dragged towards the dais, and for a moment we thought something more serious than a boar sacrifice was about to take place. But we were much relieved to see that it was only having its ears pierced. Sir James G. Frazer, quoting his authorities...