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Title: Taming New Guinea;
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Monckton, C. A. W. (Charles Arthur Whitmore), 1872-1936
Subjects: Papuans Papua New Guinea
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e beyond our gate—also dropped off tp sleep.Basilio woke me up a little later, and directed my attention to atable spread in Malay fashion with food, consisting of an excellentcurry and the choicest of the Stations garden fruit; he then satdown and waited until I had finished. What the devil is the meaning of the row in the village,Basilio ? I asked, by way of beginning the conversation. Itis humming like a swarm of angry bees. I dont know, sir ;but twice the fathers have sent here to-day asking for you, and Ihave answered that you were away, and I did not know whenyou would return. Basilio was a devout R.C., and invariablyreferred to the Sacred Heart missionaries as the fathers. Ihave warned Corporal Sara to keep ten men under arms, hewent on, as I am certain there is trouble of some sort brewing,over the sickness of the people ; ten have died in Veipa since youleft, and the sorcerers say it is either the fault of the Governmentor of the Mission. Send a couple of men to the Mission
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HOUSE \ I VP1 \N A, MEKEO RESIDENT MAGISTRATE 121 house at once, I said, and ask Fathers Bouellard or Vitali tolet me know what the trouble is. Basilio sent the men off;meanwhile the angry hum from the village rose to a yapping,snarling note, that I did not like. The Mekeo detachment, at this time, was the only one inNew Guinea armed with bayonets. The strain on my nervesbecame rather greater than I could stand ; therefore I bolted tothe barracks and told Sara to turn out every available man to beready for action in the village. Hardly had the men paradedwith bayonets fixed, than back came my two men. TheVeipa villagers are fighting, they said, arrows are flying thick,and the fathers are trying to pacify them ; unless you are quick,the missionaries will be killed. Hastily I doubled my mendown the path to the village, which I found lit up by enormousbonfires, while two opposite factions of villagers were wildlyshooting arrows and fighting savagely; Fathers Vitali andBouellard, with sev

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