Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-13

Tie 0srnss New 0ulssa Company VIM Ne
Longer Rsle the Cosatrx


Tie 0ssnas New Oslssa Company VIM Ne
Longer Rule the Country.
The German New Guinea Company
has given up the arduous task OF gov
erning the large territory confided to
1t and Emperor Williams Government
will now administer the Affairs OF the
country itself. The New Guinea Com
pany had exercised such control over
the region as the East Indies Company
once possessed over large part Of
India. 1t has had trouble with the ma
tives. 1t is now to be relieved Of the
responsibility OF maintaining order and
will devote itself to Its commercial in
terests.
New Guinea Is the largest island In
the world. The western half Of 1t, as
far as the meridian, 141 degrees East,
belongs to the Dutch. The southern
half Of the remainder is British New
Guinea, and the northern half belongs
to Germany, and is known as Kaiser
Wilhelm Land. Hamburg is the head
quarters of the New Guinea Company,
and the products 1t has been raising,
particularly New Guinea tobacco, have
often been advertised in the German
press. The company has also done
much to explore the coast mountain
ranges, and has assembled some of the
rivers for a considerable distance. 1t
was on the Kaiserin Augusta River
that it's explorers reported the natives
as having splendidly developed arms,
while their legs had rather less than
normal strength, and they attributed
this to the fact that the natives were
almost necessarily on the water ply
ing the paddle in their canoes, and
thus giving their arms great deal or
exercise at the expense Of their legs.
Some of the most important efforts
of the company to develop the country
have been centered at AstrOlabe Bay,
which is one of their chief ports. This
bay will always be historic as the
place where the Russian ethnologist,
DR.. Millucho Maclay, was put on
shore from a schooner about fifteen
years ago to study the natives. No
white man had ever been there, and
he expected to live there alone for
long time. The schooner sailed away
in the darkness, leaving him on the
beach, and when the natives saw him
there next morning they thought the
strange object had dropped from the
sky. They nearly killed him in their
experiments to determine whether he
was god. They imprisoned him in
hut and watched him day and night.
They nearly starved him, because n
god should not require food. They
tied him to a tree and shot arrows
close to his head and neck, because IL
he were god he should not be fright
ened. Two of the arrows inflicted Sc
we're flesh wounds upon the helpless
captive.
Then they pressed their spears
against his teeth to make him open his
mouth, and in many other savage ways
sorely tested his temper, courage and
strength. At last they decided that he
had dropped from the moon, and that
he was not god because his wounds
bled and he needed food, but they
voted him good fellow and grew
daily more and more fond of him be-
cause he was always cheerful how
ever much they annoyed him, and
many of their sick soon recovered I'M
der his skilful care.
For. two years DR.. Maclay lived
among these savages, feeling amply re-
paid for all his terrible sacrifices by
the wealth of scientific facts he was
able to collect. Money could not have
him to jeopardize his life and
give uD every civilized comfort. But
the facts he gathered We're needed to
complete his long studies among the
races of the western Pacific, and, with
the ardor of the born devotee of sci
ence. he was eager to make any sacri-
flee that would yield him the knowl-
edge he sought.-New York Sun.