Types--Origin--Religion--Mourning--Marriage--Treatment of Women--Children--Dress--Villages--Land Tenure--Food--Language --Musical Instruments--Native Manufactures 57 CHAPTER IV. A STORMY TRIP. Christmas at Samarai--Ah Gim--Expedition to Wari--A Series of Mishaps--The Island of Wari--Chewing Betel-Nut--Smoking--Canoe Trading 72 CHAPTER V. A GOLDEN PROSPECT. Arrival of _Juanita_--Origin of Gold Discovery--Fight Between Wagga-Wagga and Tube-Tube Natives--Weapons--Return of _Juanita_ --Trip to Sud-Est--Sud-Est--Head Hunting--Schooner _Hygeia_ left for Rossel Island--Cannibalism 88 CHAPTER VI. VOYAGE TO BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO. Return of _Seagull_ from Sud-Est--Capt. Ancell Killed--Native Treachery--_Hygeia_ arrived China Straits--Left for East Cape--Strange Looking Natives at Bentley Bay--Egum (Woodlarks)-- Tokaiakus the Dwarf--Trobriand Group--Met Cutter _Albatross_ --Trade with Natives--I go on Shore--Jurien Island--Waterspout, St. George's Channel--Arrival at Mioko, Duke of York Islands 111 CHAPTER VII. BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO. Mioko--Mr. H----'s Hospitality--Boat Race--Ralume, New Britain-- Mrs. F----'s Plantation--Native Markets in Blanche Bay--Mud Throwing--Volcano--Picnic to Pigeon Island--Samoan Dance 151 CHAPTER VIII. RETURN VOYAGE. Left Ralume--St. George's Channel--Fate of Charles Hunstein-- Marquis de Ray's Expedition--Head Winds--Shot a Shark--Pilot Fish--Lost two Buckets Overboard--Arrived Egum--Landed Dwarf-- Obtained large Turtle--Painted Boat--Arrived China Straits-- Christmas Eve 1888. 186 CHAPTER IX. THE "TRIAL." Diggers Sick with Fever--The Supreme Court--Reported Murder of S. and W., Ferguson Island--Went in _Alice Meade_ to Rescue--Report Untrue--Schooner _Myrtle_ dismasted--Went in _Juanita_ to her assistance--Dawson Island--Brought _Myrtle_ into Port--Tide Rips--Arrival of _Seagull_--Coffee Plantation on Mainland 203 CHAPTER X. SOUTH COAST. I Visit Aroma--Chief Koepina--Village of Hula--Port Moresby--Ascent of Mount Owen Stanley--Sir William MacGregor--Murder of Two White Men at Cloudy Bay 235 CHAPTER XI. CONCLUSION. Coastal Formation--Animals &c.--Climate--Population--Products, Present and Future--Native Labour 263 APPENDIX. Vocabulary of Language 283 TWO YEARS AMONG THE SAVAGES OF NEW GUINEA. INTRODUCTION. NORTH QUEENSLAND. About seven years ago, when living in South Queensland, I happened to come across a small book on New Guinea, which I devoured with great appetite; so much so that I determined, some time or another, to visit that little-known country, with its interesting savage inhabitants.