Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea. / With Introductory Notes on North Queensland.

A travel narrative recounts two years spent among indigenous communities and colonial outposts on the New Guinea coast and adjacent North Queensland. The author describes sea voyages and coastal navigation, local administration and settlement life, and close observations of native customs, languages, crafts and village organization. Chapters record market and plantation scenes, trading expeditions, hazardous weather, gold prospecting and episodic intergroup violence including head-hunting and alleged cannibalism, as well as visits to nearby island groups. The work concludes with summaries of coastal formation, climate, fauna and flora, economic prospects for the region, and a brief vocabulary of local languages.