He placed at my disposal all hisĮxisting knowledge concerning the people, and was my intermediary and interpreter throughout all my enquiries. And dear good Father Clauser was a pillar of help in Mafulu. Father Egedi (whose name is already familiar to students of New Guinea Ethnology) was my friendĪnd travelling companion during a portion of my journeyings through the Mekeo and Kuni districts, and his Mekeo explanations proved invaluable to me when I Among the latter I would specially mention FatherĮgedi and Father Clauser. Mission of the Sacred Heart) and the Fathers and Brothers of the Mission. In New Guinea I had the never-failing hospitality and kindness of my good friend Monseigneur de Boismenu (the Bishop of the Solitary expedition if I had not had his stimulating encouragement. Haddon took great trouble in helping and advising me, and, indeed, I doubt whether I should have ventured upon my There are many people, more than I can mention here, to whom I owe my grateful thanks.

I regret that my ignorance of tropical flora and fauna has made it impossible for me to give the names of many of the plants To have been correct in substance so far as they go. I hope, however, that the bulk of my notes will be found Misunderstandings, which even with the greatest care can hardly be avoided in the case of a first attempt on new ground, whereĮverything has to be investigated and worked up from the beginning. I cannot doubt, therefore, that future enquiries and investigations made in the same district will bring to light errors and

The usual hesitation in giving the required information. Unaccustomed to the type of questioning which systematic ethnological enquiry involves, and that necessarily there was often Sacred Heart, the visits of Government officials and once or twice of a scientific traveller having been but few and far between,Īnd only short that the mission station in Mafulu (the remotest station of the mission) had only been established five years previously that the people were utterly I endeavoured to carry out the enquiries of which the book is a record as carefully and accurately as possible but it mustīe remembered that the Mafulu people had seen very few white men, except some of the Fathers of the Catholic Mission of the Known route, via Lapeka, to Ido-Ido and on to Dilava, and thus passed by way of further preparation through the Kuni country,Īnd ultimately reached the district of the Mafulu villages, of whose people very little was known, and which was therefore Some of the western Solomon Islands, including those of that old centre of the head hunters, the Rubiana lagoon, and a preparatoryĪnd instructive journey in New Guinea among the large villages of the Mekeo district, I struck across country by a little This book is the outcome of an expedition to British New Guinea in 1910, in which, after a short stay among the people of The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea Robert W.

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