By bearings we are only about twenty miles in
straight course from Port Moresby.
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21_st_.--The village is built on the ridge, the chief's house right on
the high end and looking east, our small house close by on the side of
the others, on each side, leaving a pathway in the centre. At the very
end of the ridge is a house on a very high tree, used as a look-out house
and a refuge for women and children in case of attack. There are quite a
number of tree houses in the various villages on the ridges seen from
here. The people are anxious to get Maka, a light-coloured and very fine-
looking native lad, married to one of their girls and settled down
amongst them. I said to our African, "They want Maka to marry one of
their girls." Joe, I suppose, felt slighted that he too had not an
offer, and he replied, "Well, sir, in Madagascar, a very big chief was
real anxious I marry his daughter; fine-looking girl; he make me chief,
and give me plenty land; far cleaner people than them be.
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