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I QUITE agree with Prof. Haddon's remarks above, which you have been good enough to submit to me, with regard to the mountaineers of the interior of New Guinea. They enter into details which, in an already over-long review, I had no space for. There is no doubt about the right-hand figure (p. 346) being not a mountaineer. I was less confident about the man on the left hand. The two central figures recall to me perfectly the people of Uburukara, of whom I took photographs in 1886, the plates of which were ruined during my disastrous march down the Goldie, and it was they who specially attracted my attention. With regard to the “Fly River” natives, I have never had the fortune to see any of them, but I certainly took the central figure to be one, while remarking to myself the likeness of the right-hand man to a Motuan—to men with whom he could be matched in any village indeed between the Gulf and Kerepunu.
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FORBES, H. British New Guinea. Nature 47, 414 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047414e0
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