The rest of this paragraph will be taken up with a survey of New Guinea and in the first place of the Dutch part of the island.
Bink and Krieger both state the Papuans of Humboldt Bay have no slaves, neither are slaves mentioned in Koning’s account[236].
In the district of Tabi some men were observed, who had their hair cut short; according to a Dorey interpreter, they were slaves[237]. This short note is not, however, sufficient to go upon.
The inhabitants of Seroei are much given to the kidnapping of slaves, whom they sell. Whether they keep any slaves themselves, does not appear[238].
The Papuans near Lake Sentani keep neither slaves nor pawns[239].
The natives of Ansus purchase many slaves, and sell slaves to Ternate traders[240]. In this case, too, we are not told, whether all the purchased slaves are sold abroad, or any of them are kept by the natives.
The aborigines of Windessi in their raids make prisoners [[95]]“to whom they give the name of woman, slave”[241]. This short note does not enable us to arrive at a clear conclusion.
Goudswaard says of the Papuans of Geelvinck Bay generally: “The Papuan steals men, makes them slaves, and despises them.” “The wars of the Papuans are little more than raids, in which they burn the houses of their enemies, destroy their gardens, and if possible make women and children prisoners, to restore them later on for an adequate ransom, or else to keep them as slaves or exchange them”[242].
The accounts, given by Van Hasselt and De Clercq, prove that slavery exists among the Nuforese[243].
The inhabitants of Dorey and Roon belong to the Nuforese. Rosenberg gives some particulars about slavery in Dorey, and Robidé has a few notes on slaves kept by the inhabitants of Roon[244].