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Identifier: moderntravelreco00davi (find matches)
Title: Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Davidson, Norman James. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company London, Seeley, Service & co., ltd.
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NEW GUINEA DUTCH SECTIOilf CHAPTER XVII A LAND OF PERPETUAL RAIN New Guinea has been the object of numerous expeditionsof research, but as a whole still offers greater oppor-tunities for the explorer, collector and anthropologistthan any other portion of the globe, and yet many yearsmust elapse before sufficient knowledge of the countrycan be accumulated even to construct a sketch-map of itsentire surface, to say nothing of a complete scientificexamination of its mammals, birds, reptiles, insects andplants, or a study of the many savage tribes whichinhabit the highlands and the plains. The chief reasonsfor this are its remote situation from the civilised world,its impenetrable forests, its rugged ranges and endlessswamps, its rains and fevers, and lastly its hostile andtreacherous inhabitants. It can be easily understood, therefore, why thiscountry was selected as a virgin land in which to workwhen the British Ornithologists Union desired to com-memorate their jubilee by sending an ex

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