THE NEW GUINEA MISSION.

Evening Star, Issue 4259, 20 October 1876, Page 1

THE NEW GUINEA MISSION.

■.'- .- ...,•,■., ■ -*^i.:. v , NAKRA.TIVE fcY A. M^IOXJJtY^A, BACK OF - . •,. MbSs- >WiTH> TAlfißl^"" 3iK *** -.. The fol&wing- iexte»jsferlf<W|l »» latter received from the-Hev. George Brown, the pionieer mijtei<jbaryfe*a,**he i&ttke.odf York lßland and the adjacent islands, will doubtless be read with interest. It-is-nearly twelve months since any intelligence of Mr Brown .was received, and,, for <ail that his friends knew, he might have long since shared the fate of the immari thigh referred to in his letter. .Mr Brown writes under -date, and his letter 'reached hereby* 'the'Hero last week. Be writes:—"Among olirer things I have explored* long line of, coast on tfew Britain, from a Pboiiit aoout tvelve milea beyond Cape Man Island. We hay© C&pe FaUiser; the - visited. There on all * that coast, and ijuiteiiitendly. By the way, the natives; positive in their abortions thtt %*e is a quite close to where we were? are dwarfs* they* represent as being hard! ana stiff, is an exv teusion fit tbe spinal bone, and that if the -»-paopla wigh tp tflfr JHluafc-JhwfcTiirr a '" " hole quite scoutfthwiiftsestibn that they must be monkeys. They M\£r** J t or make" taroT plantation* spears, as these men do?" I teUlhe-fcleas • ik-M&ldto ma^;l»haUbo m Mhap^4obe. ; introduced to one of them, and have promised no end of good Vho will secure me that honor. -*N.ZJaexald.»