New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1926, Page 12

s g PIERCING JUNGLES OF GANNIBAL ISLE American Leads Expedition Into| Dutch New Guinea The world's greatest 1and” is slowly being conquered. In spite of hostlle cannibal Papuans, | the Dutch-Apmerican Expedition to ] explore Dutch New Guinea, under| the auspices of the Smithsonion In-| stitution, has plerced the coastal| jungles and thrust its head into the | Snow Mountains and the land of the pygmies. Dr. Matthew 'W. Stirling, the| American who inaugurated the expe- ditfon and who gained the coopcra- tion of the Dutch East Indian Gov- ernment, with Mr. Le Roux of the Batavia Museum, finally reached the mountains the middle of August, while the remainder of the expe dition—officers and soldiers, Dy: carriers, Malay and convict laborers, | totalling nearly 400 — maintained | communications and food supply | along the jungle banks of the Memberamo and Rouffaer river to the sea. Word to this effect and coples of sections of his diary were malled to the Smithsonlan by Dr.| Stirling before his thrust into the mountains. During the months in which the expedition wormed its way through | the. jungle, establishing a chain of camps and bringing up tons of re- serve: stores -to the base from which Dr. Stirling and his Dutch companion entered the mountains, the expedition mapped territory and river routes where hitherto there has been a blank space upon the map; it collected specimens of rare plants and animal life of the region, much of which will undoubledly prove new to science, and it stud- ied and collected quantities of im- plements and other materials from | the Papuan tribes who inhabit the | coastal jungles and who are probably | the most. primitive people in ex-| istence: A considerable part of all| this material will be brought back to the Smithsonian Institution for | study, when the expedition with- draws in December. Plane Overcomes Obstacles The success of the Dutch-Ameri- can expedition represents a triumph for the flying machine and for care- ful organization. In the four hun- dred years since Furopeans first came upon Dutch New Guinea, ex- peditions of many nationalities have attacked the secrets guarded by the forty miles of coastal jungle which separate the mountains from the sea. But the labyrinth of treacherous | rivers, coupled with torrential rains, fevers and insect pests, have them' with failure and sometimes wiih deéath. Dr. Stirling's first in- novation was an-aeroplane. He took with him from America an all metal Yackey Transport plane. He had planned to supplement this with a small force of Malay and Dyak carriers, but when he reached Batavia, the Dutch autorities were 80 favorably impressed with the possibilities of the plane that they volunteered to cooperate with the expedition. They furnised soldiers, carriers :and convicts, motor boats and supplies, besides cartographers, botanists and medical men, thus making the expedition one of the largest ever sent into the country. In. Aprit the government trans- vgrt‘&! the expedition as far as a lagge vessel could go up the Mem. beramo River, which enters the sea at Cape d'Urville on the north caast: . From this point the aero. “unknown plane, piloted by the American, H. | |# H. Hoyte, with Or. Stirling as ob- setver, flew over the Memberamo to the junction of the Rouffaer and | then followed the latter stream into | the mountains mapping the route to be taken later by boats. Suc- | cessful landings were made well in the jaterlor of the country. Altogether the plane spent 80 | hours {n the air, admirably fulfil- | ling its purpose as the eye of - the | expedition. In July the pontoons, | tromt dally rains, steaming sun and high water, gave way so that they could not be repaired and prevented further ube of the palne. ‘“The re- malinder of the plane is in as good shape as the day she arrived in New Guine&;” whote Dr. Stirling in his dlary. “Tt is like having a fine new | automobfle but no tires. The FErn | is perched on the bank about 200 yards below Batavia Camp-—her final | resting place after as eventful a | carecr as any plang ever had.” The | engine and propeller will be brought back to America. | PDyak Boatmen Invaluable However, with the knowledge | gained from the air, the expedition | could advance along a predetermined route by water—a fremendous ad- vantage over the blind groping to which all previous expeditions have had to resort. The vital element in the success of this phase of the work was the hoatmen. The fol- lowing description by Dr. Stirling of Edi-Falls on the Memberamo River will Indicate wh “Great upended from the water he there The river mak 3 a at this point, the stricted current dashin east cliff and then hein turned by the vertical v strata project con- inst the | Retain the Charm Of Girlhood {9 A Clear Sweet Skin d‘{ Cuticura Will Help You Use Cutie: p Every Day — LOOK! FREE FOOTBALLS Given Free to the Lucky Boys attending the Show after school Monday Nov. 15th. To See “FOREVER AFTER” A Tale of Football and War Adm, 10c Footballs on Display at Star (‘onl‘ec'llnnery met ||§ an immense whirlpool just below the angle. Right at the angle Iitself, there is a drop of probably eight feet. The water along here races at territic speed and rises in great white waves which are broken against the projecting rocks in the middle of the current. The noise ot the water in like a surt in a| storm along a rocky coast. From the shore one-can see great depres- sions in the water where it is swirl- | ed down, and huge boiling mounds | of water, where it surges up from | the power below.” The only boatmen who have prov- | ed capable of successfully negotiat- | ing such passages as this are Dyaks from the hills of Borneo. The| Dutch-American expedition has 70 Dyak boatmen. Dr. Stirling illus- | trates their capacities In the story of how Tomalinda, their chieftan, cleared oft a fallen tree which ob- | structed a passage in the river.} “Tomalinda walked out on the hori- zontal Hmb with his parang (knife) and started cutting the hanging| tree. When it severed, it fell vir- tically, .the water catching the| branches and tearing it away. On the instant that it fell towards him, | Tomalinda. leaped, and catching a| small bough close to the trunk, hung | by one arm beneath the large tree | as the falling trunk narrowly missed him. Had he been knocked into the water, 1t would have meant certain death.” | With such expert and intrepid boatmen as these, the expedition has succeeded in establishing a halt dozen camps along the rivers, and in passing tons of supplies from | camp to camp to the interior. Heavy, Ralns Severe Handicap | The almost nightly rains, whic¥ | | send the expedition to bed in soak- | ing blankets occasionally margons | the camps for days at a time; the | mosquitoes and other insect pests, | the fever and blood sucking leeches exact a heavy price for the pene- | tration of thé country's secrets, but | do not interpose a fatal barrier. Un- | triendly tribes of Papuans, however, | present .a more serious obstacle. | It is fortunate for the expedition | that the Papuans are people of the | stone age who know noting of metals, | let alone.of firearms. Their imple- ments are stone axes, their weapons | hows and arrows and spears made | of human bones. They will trade their scanty all for a four cent| knife or a-filshhook. Speaking of | one tribe mear Batavia Camp, Dr. Stirling writes: “They learned the use of fishhooks watching the Dyaks. It was a new idea to them, as here- tofore the only method they knew was to shoot fish with arrows. It is a tedious business.” Their desire to trade for the white men's metal implement is so great as to render them comically frantic. “We induced a-group of Val. 29¢ ya. Charmeuse finish Ladies' Cloth, No. 1,000, for lin. geries and 1 infants’ wear. &2 YDS, val. 39¢ yf. Mohawk, well Starchless Pillow known Cases. 3 FOR Val. 23¢ yd. New shipment wide, fast color 36-inch Challis. 8 YDS. Val. 33c yd. Indian Head Linen 4 YDS. Val. 49¢ yd. Pequot Tubing 42x36 3 YDS. Val. 29c yd. Lockwood Extra He: Unbleached Sheeiing 5\1)\ 98¢ 88c NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TOESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 19%8. W six Papuans to come near and held out some small trade articles. They became immensély excited and leap- ed around, ecagerly tearing off all of their ornaments, net bags, etc., and handing over their bows and arrows, almost falling down in their eagerness to part with them. While so eager to trade that it was really pitiful to see them, they were at the same time keyed to the highest pitch of mervous tension. If one reached towards them to point out a belt or an article wanted, they | would either jump away or stand trembling like a leaf. When Stan- ley pointed at one in a canoe indi- cating the article he wanted, the Papuan immediately jumped over- board. Converse by Pantomime “They are great antomimists and act out thoroughly the action they wish to explain. We asked by signs it they had seen our plane fly over. This immediately brought forth an exicted response was worth traveling many miles to see their imitation of the plane. Holding their arms extended hori- zontally they ran up and down in front of camp, with the most ex- cruciating facial grimaces and imi- tating the sound of the motor. This accomplished, they threw themselves flat on the ground on their bellies and burrowed their faces in the mud, presumably by way of {llus- trathg their own actions at the | time.” But the Papuans are not always 80 friendly. Several times they have attacked convoys of Dyaks on the river. In fact, during the night that succeeded the trading described above, messengers reached Dr. Stir- ling from the Dutch sergeant at Head camp, reporting an attack on the camp by 100 Papuans, firing ows and arrows. When Dr. Stirling and his party reached the Head Camp and visited the neighboring villages they found them hastily abandone and it the houses, but the villages had the appearance of being quite abandon- ed. There was a small rude plat- form, made of four poles for sup- ports and covered with sago leaves. From one corner of this hung a small net bag which contailned the jaw bone of a child. Tt is probable that it had been used as a burial platform. The houses all were sim- ply made, had platform floors of bark, about three feet off the ground. On this floor, at one side, was usually erected a secondary platform about five feet above the floor. On the floor were from one or two to six clay hearths covered with ashes. In one of the houses hanging from the rafters was a fine “medicine bag” on which were hang- ing a human jaw, the crests of three cassowaries, and several heron beaks and pig tals.” Dyaks on Alert The following day Dr. Stirling, with R. K, Peck, photographer, Mr. Le Roux, Dutch cartographer, and six Dyaks explored a newly discovered river. Rounding a turn, they came upon a Papuan dugout canoe, tied to the shore. “The Dyaks,” writes Dr. Stirling, ‘all adjusted thelr shiclds by their sides so that they were in a convenient position and paddled silently without touching the handles of the paddles to the sides of the conoe. We saw no one, however, but a mile farther |on we suddenly came upon two | houses built on stilts on a little raised spot on the east bank. All A Bad Taste in the Morning is Nature’s warning that your in- testines are clogded up. You feel “In front of the principal struc-| ull and depressed. Your ambition tures of one village,” records Dr. Stirling, “was set up the green bough of a tree about seven feet high with the leaves still fresh. Alongside it, a stone axe had been driven into the ground with head up. It had then been hacked half in g¢wo in the middie of the handle and broken so that the stone head touched the ground. 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