For near a month we had wet weather; the sun either not appearing at all, or only for an hour or two about noon.

Morning and evening, as well as nearly all night, it rained or drizzled, and boisterous winds, with dark clouds, formed the daily programme.

With the exception that it was never cold, it was just such weather as a very bad English November or February.
The people of Waigiou are not truly indigenes of the island, which possesses no "Alfuros," or aboriginal inhabitants.

They appear to be a mixed race, partly from Gilolo, partly from New Guinea.

Malays and Alfuros from the former island have probably settled here, and many of them have taken Papuan wives from Salwatty or Dorey, while the influx of people from those places, and of slaves, has led to the formation of a tribe exhibiting almost all the transitions from a nearly pure Malayan to an entirely Papuan type.