Identifier: newnewguinea00grim (find matches)
Title: The new New Guinea
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel
Subjects: Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott London : Hutchinson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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on of theisland in its rise from the sea. Walking on coral ofany kind is very like walking on a pavement ofpetrified Turkey sponges, every point as hard orsharp as a steel pen. In this instance, the difficultywas added to by the piled-up blocks of the stair-case, which obliged one to lift ones feet waist-highat every step, after the manner of tourists climbingthe pyramids of Cheops. Arrived at the top, there were the usual slopingmuddy tracks, leading from village to village ; yamgardens, immense in extent and beautifully kept andfenced ; natives here and there, not at all scared(since white people have often visited the Trobriands),but very eager to do a good bit of bargaining if itcame to curio buying; the quaint, elegantly builtlittle towns ; the staring, crowding women, half-timid,half-curious ; the rattle of small naked boys, deter-mined to follow our party from end to end of theisland, if necessary—all the familiar scenes of islandlife as I had known it in the South Sea world.
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NOVELTIES 313 There were novelties, however. The fishing kitesthat they eagerly offered for sale were not like any-thing in M(f islands ; nor does one, in the SouthSeas, see a disconsolate parent going about with thejawbone of his deceased child hung like a locketround his neck—a common practice in Kitava. Noryet, in all the South Sea world, shall you haveenormous red-back spiders, as big as small birds andas poisonous as snakes, offered you—alive—as valu-able and desirable curiosities. The kites were really wonderful. They were madeof dried banana leaves stretched on twigs, andattached to neat coils of fine native-made twine. Atthe other end of the twine was an object somewhatresembling a tennis racquet, strung across with a massof yellow, strong, silky net, which is obtained bytwirling the frame round and round in one of thegreat bush-spiders webs. This frame is left to trailloose in the water, while the kite is flown above thesea. Small fish come after it and strike their tee

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