The steamer passed along near the shores, but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance.
Les sauvages Papouas de l'île ne se montrèrent point. Ce sont des êtres placés au dernier degré de l'échelle humaine, mais dont on fait à tort des anthropophages.