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Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries

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AFTER perusal of this book we are not able to say that its title is strictly descriptive of its contents. Its as regards New Guinea too comprehensive, and too vague in respect of “the Cannibal Countries.” It deals with adventurous cruises on the New Guinea coast, and among the islands from the Admiralty Group to the Solomons, with a land journey undertaken in German New Guinea. Of this our author says:

Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries.

By H. Cayley Webster. Pp. xvii + 387. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.)

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Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries. Nature 60, 49–51 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060049a0

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