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TWO YEARS AMONG NEW

GUINEA CANNIBALS

TWO NEW GUINEA DANDIES.
They are natives of Dinawa. Notice their tight-laced waists and the nose ornaments (chimani) of polished shell.

TWO YEARS AMONG NEW GUINEA CANNIBALS
A Naturalist’s Sojourn among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea

By

A. E. PRATT

Gill Memorialist, Royal Geographical Society, 1891 Author of “To the Snows of Tibet through China,” etc.

With Notes and Observations by his Son

HENRY PRATT

And Appendices on the Scientific Results of the Expedition

With 54 Illustrations and a Map

PHILADELPHIA

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

LONDON: SEELEY & CO. Ltd.

1906

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

At the Ballantyne Press

TO

MY WIFE

THE COMPANION, PRESENT OR ABSENT OF MY MANY WANDERINGS