Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals
by A. E. Pratt
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar), 1852-1924
- Title
- Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Natural history -- New Guinea
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 66773
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66773
- Release Date
- November 19, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TWO YEARS AMONG NEW GUINEA CANNIBALS A Naturalist’s Sojourn among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I BREAKING THE GROUND
- 6.CHAPTER II DISAPPOINTMENTS IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA
- 7.CHAPTER III CHANGES AND STRANGE SCENES
- 8.CHAPTER IV WE STRIKE INLAND
- 9.CHAPTER V THE FIRST CAMP
- 10.CHAPTER VI VICISSITUDES AND A DIGRESSION
- 11.CHAPTER VII GOOD-BYE TO DINAWA
- 12.CHAPTER VIII INACTION AND AN EXCURSION
- 13.CHAPTER IX TOWARDS THE UNEXPLORED
- 14.CHAPTER X UPS AND DOWNS — Amplified Note on the Journey to Yo-ya-ka
- 15.CHAPTER XI A BOY OF SIXTEEN ALONE WITH CANNIBALS — Note on the Murder of Ow-bow’s Brother — Notes on Amana and the Tree-House — The Lunatic at Amana — Foula Village
- 16.CHAPTER XII THE UNEXPLORED: AMONG PAPUAN PEAKS
- 17.CHAPTER XIII LAST JOURNEY TO THE COAST
- 18.CHAPTER XIV A FORTY-MILE TRAMP BY THE SHORE
- 19.CHAPTER XV NATIVE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
- 20.CHAPTER XVI BURIAL, WITCHCRAFT, AND OTHER THEMES
- 21.CHAPTER XVII A NOTE ON BRITISH TRADE PROSPECTS IN NEW GUINEA
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII NOTES ON SOME BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA
- 23.APPENDICES — APPENDIX I NEW LEPIDOPTERA DISCOVERED DURING THE EXPEDITION — APPENDIX II A NEW REPTILE FROM DINAWA — APPENDIX III A NEW FISH DISCOVERED BY THE EXPEDITION
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