The houses were scattered about among rudely cultivated clearings.

Two which I visited consisted of a central passage, on each side of which opened short passages, admitting to two rooms, each of which was a house accommodating a separate family.

They were elevated at least fifteen feet above the ground, on a complete forest of poles, and were so rude and dilapidated that some of the small passages had openings in the floor of loose sticks, through which a child might fall.
The inhabitants seemed rather uglier than those at Dorey village.

They are, no doubt, the true indigenes of this part of New Guinea, living in the interior, and subsisting by cultivation and hunting.

The Dorey men, on the other hand, are shore-dwellers, fishers and traders in a small way, and have thus the character of a colony who have migrated from another district.