The Next Morning We Five White Men Parted Company, Walsh And Clark,
With The Mambare And Their Own Police, Returning To The North,
While Monckton, Acland And I Went Southward Again To Continue Our
Explorations In Another Direction.
Our Discovery of Flat-Footed Lake Dwellers.
CHAPTER 11
Our Discovery of Flat-Footed Lake Dwellers.
Rumours at Cape Nelson of a "Duckfooted" People in the Interior -
Conflicting Opinions - Views of a Confirmed Sceptic - Start of the
Expedition - Magnificence of the Vegetation - Friendliness of the
Barugas - The "Orakaibas" (Criers of "Peace") - Tree-huts eighty feet
from the ground-Loveliness of this part of the Jungle - Description
of its Plants - A Dry Season - First Glimpse of Agai Ambu Huts -
Remarkable Scene on the Lake - Flight of the Agai Ambu in Canoes -
Success at Last - A Voluntary Surrender - The Agai Ambu Flat-footed,
not Web-footed - Sir Francis Winter's subsequent Visit and fuller
Description of these People - Their Physical Appearance, Houses,
Canoes, Food, Speech and Customs - My Account Resumed - Making
Friends with the Agai Ambu - A Country of Swamps - Second Agai
Ambu Village - Extraordinary Abundance and Variety of Water-fowl -
Strange Behaviour of an Agai Ambu Women - Disposal of the Dead in
Mid-lake Food of the Agai Ambu - Their Method of Catching Ducks
by Diving for them - An Odd Experience - Mosquitos and Fever -
Last View of Agai Ambu - An Amusing FINALE.
Many were the wild and fantastic rumours we had heard at the Residency
at Cape Nelson, on the north-east coast of British New Guinea,
concerning a curious tribe of natives whose feet were reported to be
webbed like those of a duck, and who lived in a swamp a short way in
the interior, some distance to the north of us.
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