PAPUAN ADVENTURE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17690, 16 February 1923, Page 12

PAPUAN ADVENTURE.

CAPTAIN HURLEY REITOT '•'HBB (ibok ora ow» covatnntatfM STDNBT, Fe^B^a Captain fttriey, whowlßhrttfTl ' Papuan' experiences ham ?**/« j world famous, has/eturned from &M into the hj« 1 of-Papoa. M this titno he hasSi story <* official« ferenoo with the progress «fefl adT«nture, I jjla I Captain Htarley and Mr Maawg ' of ithe Sydney Museum staff, aoMJM| I eof at great expense, during their* proration ,of Vvestem Papua. a, ■ 1 ethnological collection, whicJi it wrl tended should be presented toytbe fl tralian Museum, is t Sydney, jn j collection included a raw and am ! carved canoe, forty feet in, Jfnjp 0 ."! 1 remote Aramia, and n»7. otter m esting objects, all of£W» mm purchased' from theimw •* S prices. , i'j> [.|.niLa When the explorem "'"""SH Port Moresby a ohaTffJ|»y against them of havwg acoi»Ma «ra of the curios south, Capt. Hnrley «««f*Mffl practically charging the natives and looting tMjr j»g Although the charge, was rtU ivm the administration seised w?J™HB which is now at Port » OM W| danger of deterioration. Dealing with his .exploratWMW Hurley states that they we» awß« the vast unexplored a««insHa where cannibalism and nea*J»fflWffl still the national vioea and mmm merits. . . «, icLjH] There was much wow 'frjgyßj fie expeditions, but the ?™~I3H appeared to regard »<» "SB with aversion. ', ■ ||.;Sffin Portion «f the patty • «"f*'2»| was carried out by njean»,« ftPSJ l>ut after a few months bo abandoned,, owing WJ3/3S the climate' upon tl»'-texMß»,Js|| planes. . -JPSN Important charting wo" out. A new race rfj/gJJI discovered, dwelling amidst ™*m of Lake Murray. .^al Notable success * ut wireless equipment, and «°™33pJ| of Papua they were in. tc Wnirntion with the Port <*#gjM Thursday Island f signals were read from | Java. I