Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-01
IN THE DAYS NEWS
New Guinea.

New Guinea, had it determined it's sovereign powers itself, might be said to have played both ends against the middle with a vengeance; for it was divided among England, Germany, and neutral Holland" says a bulletin from the National Geogra phic Society.
 "This island. the largest in the world, if Australia be ranked as continent, and in many respects the most primitive, furnishes one of the perplexing colonial problems before the peace. conference"
 Conditions in New Guinea in the period before the war; are described in the following bulletin from the Ma tional Geographic Society, based on a communication from Thomas Ear bour:
 New Guinea the last great area re- maining in the tropics which is still almost completely unknown, has 9 pe- culiar charm for the neutralist. Lying between the Eqquator and 1 Queensland, Australia, it's length is about ,490 miles and it's maximum breadth is 430 miles. Its area is greater than that of Borneo, being about 300, f001 square miles. Politic- ally it is divided into three parts The lower coasts bordering Torres Straits form British Papua as it is now called. The esatern coast as far as 40 degrees AT minutes east long I itude, with d considerable hinterland, i goes to make up Kaiser Wilhelm S l Land, or German New Guinea. In 1 both of these districts there are a -~ ''f~"''1n 7'7uii9er Of white settle ments and mission stations; and min- ,.--., -~..- -,p.4. 4,eI4nIuG are carried on. Thte great western region of Fapua is Dutch and it is of this region that wke are dealing especially. 1 Tt is this very absence of white folks which gives this land an added 1 interest, for here the native may be seen in his primitive simplicity. With such beWildering varety of human l types among the Papuan tribes, each speaking it's own language, the eth nologist has a great field, one which l is certainly unexcelled.
 Tn coming to Papua from Malasia i it is the sudden contrast in the peo- | pie which makes the most startling 1 impression on ones mind. The Malay grave, reserved and dignified, is as un- like his New Guinean neighbor as a Chinaman is unlike a European These islanders are a happy, bolster ous lot until some little thing of 1 fends them, when they at once become
 
 no occasion to cross them, we got along admirably.
 ''The pure Papuan is very dark brown. usually wellbuilt, thick set man of medium height. Occasional in- dividuals are seen who are slight
 short, and who have strongly marked i Negritos characteristics, These prob
 ably represent survivals of the very
 earliest human inhabitants of the re-
 gion. as were the Negritos in the
 Philippines. Out on the Pacific
 coast toward German territory the
 human type is markedly different
 Here in varying degrees we meet peo-
 pie who have characteristics of other
 island groups to the eastward, fol
 there probably has been accidenta
 colonizations along this shore
 From NFiaiI it is d short journey tt
 Jobi Islnad another of the groul which lies in the mouth of Geelvinl
 Bay. The people here vary little il appearance from the other Papuans o the repiHn but their manners and GUS toms differ much from village to will a-e L,ueed, while this island i harrly larger than Long Island, Nev York. eleven mutually unintelligibl' f languages are spoken on it. Man, f feuds exist, and when our ship cam ? to anchor in Pom Bay, canoes at l tracted by the smoke and which ha r come from neighboring harbors di
 not spend the night even close to tn
 shIp because their occupants wer ) afr"3d of the people Of Pom.
 1 "The raiding canoes of Pom wer