Notwithstanding various expensive expeditions for the exploration of New
Guinea, he has travelled the farthest yet into the interior. He has been
as far as Lat. S. 9 degrees 2' and Long. E. 147 degrees 42.5'. The
farthest point reached by Captain Armit was about Lat. S. 9 degrees 35'
and Long. E. 147 degrees 38'. Mr. Morrison merely reached a point on the
Goldie River, when he was attacked and wounded by the natives. This
compelled the party to return to Port Moresby.
Mr. Chalmers is still actively engaged in his work on the great island,
and he has placed many of his journals and papers at the disposal of the
Religious Tract Society, in the hope that their publication may increase
the general store of knowledge about New Guinea, and may also give true
ideas about the natives, the kind of Christian work that is being done in
their midst, and the progress in it that is being made.
The prominence which New Guinea has assumed in the public mind lately is
due much more to political than to religious reasons.
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