CHAPTER XIX.

NEW GUINEA.

Voyage towards the St. Bartholomeus River.--Encounter a Multitude of Whales.--Discover a Sand-bank.--Nautical Remarks.--Difficulty in approaching the Land.--Sharks.--Crocodiles.--Discover a River.--The Author ascends it.--Remarkable Behaviour of the Natives.--Their Wild State.--Unable to land.--Arrival at an uninhabited Bay on the Island of Lakahia.--Visit from some of the Chiefs. 317