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SEMON'S RESEARCHES IN AUSTRALIA.
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inmates are under the supervision of an elderly man, and their admission to this home, of youthful celibates is attended with considerable

Papuan Lake Dwellings, with a Lakatoi under Sail in the Background.

ceremony, when they are invested with a narrow girdle belt ("ihavuri"), which makes their waists look as slender as that of a