Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate

On the first of July, 1903, the _Merrie England_ arrived at Cape Nelson, bringing the Administrator, Mr. Justice Robinson. His Excellency informed me that he intended to visit t...

One day, whilst I was busily engaged with my police in the erection of our Station buildings, I being, as I thought, the only European within miles of Cape Nelson, I was told th...

I find that I have wandered too far in advance of my time, and also away from the North-Eastern Division. Some six months after I had opened the new Station at Cape Nelson, the...

Barton and I returned to Cape Nelson on the 24th of April, and found all in order; we waited there for the return of the _Merrie England_, as she was to take Barton and his men...

One night, in Moreton’s house, I had a curious and uncanny experience. I was sitting at the table, writing a long dispatch which engaged all my attention; my table was in the mi...

While we were at Samarai, I put Patten to work re-rigging the _Siai_. When Sir William MacGregor arrived, he gently hinted that he rather thought I must have caught Patten for t...

The new Governor was a man as different from Sir William MacGregor as chalk from cheese. Mr. Le Hunte (as he was then) was a pleasant, genial Irishman; greeting each one of his...

On my return to Cape Nelson, I found that Oelrichs had recovered, and had made a start with his new duties; he had begun them very vigorously too; for, as we sat at lunch on boa...

at any time he had neglected his duties as a v.c.: should he have done that, he would be extremely ill for a few minutes, and then get quite well again. Somehow or other I think...

Sir Francis Winter made me Assistant to Russell in the Survey Office, whilst awaiting the Governor’s return: I spent my time drawing maps and copying plans, and I also began a f...

At Cape Nelson, I was now busy in the erection of my new Station. A New Guinea Government Station consisted of the R.M.’s house, police barracks, storerooms, magazine, married q...

Since the writing of the last chapter much has happened; war has broken out, and I must go and fight in Kitchener’s Army. I had intended to conclude my book with a description o...

After about a week the _Mizpah_ had filled the _Siai_ with yams, plantains, and fresh vegetables for the disease-stricken prisoners at Samarai; and Moreton and Judge Winter, hav...

Since my first arrival at Cape Nelson, three months had gone by, during which period the Kaili Kaili and my men had become sworn friends and allies. The Station was nearly finis...

At the time we were camped on the shore of the Agaiambu lake, I noticed growing on the bank of a stream leading into it, a D’Albertia creeper, with white blossoms instead of the...

I made a portion of my return voyage to New Zealand in the _Myrtle_; and her first place of call was at Yule Island, where she stopped to load a cargo of sandalwood. Large quant...

We struck camp at daylight and moved down the river, soon coming upon a number of well-built native lean-to shelters, showing signs of having been recently and hastily vacated;...

The night before I sailed from Samarai, Sione came to me and told me that he had recently been married, and that Moreton had promised to allow him to take his wife on the next r...

Some six months I put in at Woodlark Island, acquiring during that time a fine strong brand of malaria, a crop of boils, which had spread like wildfire among the mining camps, c...

At Samarai I found Moreton looking very ill, and keenly anxious to get away; Symons, late purser of the _Merrie England_, was now his assistant and Subcollector of Customs inste...

About this time I received a message that Sir Francis Winter had departed, and that Mr. Musgrave had assumed the administratorship, pending the appointment of a successor to tha...

At this first parade, after my return to Mekeo, when I was inspecting the men I found one of them all gashed about the face and body. “What have you been up to?” I asked; “more...

At length Tommy Rous’ boarders all departed. His health seemed to be somewhat better, for a while at any rate, and I felt that I could leave him with a clear conscience. As I wa...

In the year 1895 I found myself at Cooktown in Queensland, aged 23, accompanied by a fellow adventurer, F. H. Sylvester, and armed with £100, an outfit particularly unsuited to...

At the Trobriands we sighted our missing _Ada_ at anchor and, upon the _Mizpah_ running alongside, discovered that she was full of native women. At first ugly looks and hands up...

The day following our arrival in Samarai, loud yells of “Sail Ho!” from every native in the island announced that the _Merrie England_ was returning from the Mambare River, wher...

At Suloga Bay I found Graham still waiting, in charge of a small cutter owned by a local resident, which he had undertaken to take to Samarai for repairs and a new crew, the ori...

My first business now, was to try and find out the nature of the rapid and deadly disease from which the people were suffering, and with this object in view I consulted the prie...

This book also was published under the title “Taming New Guinea: Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate.” The two editions appear to be identical except for the Ti...