She goes to the next house, swings the infant kit off first,
placing it on the ground, where the infant in it kicks and rolls, but
cannot get out until the kits of taro and sugar-cane are safely housed.
14_th_.--This morning, after an early breakfast, we started with the Port
Moresby natives for Munikahila, they being anxious to secure a supply of
betel-nuts to return with. Have promised our old friend Oriope of
Uakinumu, before we started on the Eikiri trip, that if he led us across
and gave us bearers, all should have tomahawks, knives, etc. He did not
carry out his part, and the bearers from him returned, leaving us inland.
I was anxious to pay them for what they did, so we went on there with
tomahawks, tobacco, and salt. We were about two miles from the village,
when we shouted, and were replied to, and soon four young fellows came
rushing along, in a great state of perspiration and very excited, rubbing
our chins and throwing their arms around us, highly delighted that we had
returned. They were not going to serve us as they did the last time.
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