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Title: The new New Guinea
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel
Subjects: Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott London : Hutchinson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ideal life onan island of ones own does not appear to have idealeffects when translated out of the visionary into theconcrete. It is best suited to the very old or thevery young—those who have done with life, and onlydesire to rest and dream until the end, or those whoare still so rich in the unspent capital of golden yearsthat they can afford to throw away a few on the chancethat the life may really prove to be all that they desire.We returned to Samarai after a cruise of severaldays, disappointed as regarded the Japs, but wellpleased with what we had seen. I cannot say exactlywhat lands are to let, and what are still free amongthese island groups, but it may be generally statedthat there is a good deal to be had, practically withoutrent (though with conditions as to improvement), andthat the land is in most cases excellent for copra. Thenatives of the Louisiade group are among the mostcivilised in New Guinea, and have in most cases beenChristianised (more or less) for many years.
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ROAST PIG 271 The Government nursery at Milne Bay, half adays run down the coast, had to be visited after this.Milne Bay is a very peaceful place in these days; youcould take your aged grandaunt, or your timid sister-in-law who has never been out of her own country,and leave her there for six months, with a comfortablecertainty of finding her all in one piece, if somewhatbored, when you returned. It was not always so,however. Less than twenty years ago the Milne Baytribes used to eat any stranger who landed there ; andit took much faithful dealing on the part of theGovernment, backed up by the Armed Native Con-stabulary, to improve their company manners. MilneBay was one of the districts where the gentle Papuanused to roast his game alive—pig when there wasnothing better, man when he was to be had. Roast-ing pigs alive is an amusement by no means extinct inthe Territory even yet. The Papuan is fully alive tothe value of self-advertisement, and by simply omit-ting the preliminary kno

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