 | Dirk Hendrik Kolff - 1840 - 405 páginas
...These pilots obtain the use of a portion of the vessel, in which to deposit their goods, as a reward for their services, thirty piculs (about two tons)...Papua of the coast is struck by a desire to obtain any articles brought by the foreign trader, for which he has no productions to give in exchange, he... | |
 | Dirk Hendrik Kolff - 1840 - 402 páginas
...small vessels on piratical excursions, and proceed to a considerable distance from their homes. Then- mode of warfare is rude in the extreme; their weapons...Papua of the coast is struck by a desire to obtain any articles brought by the foreign trader, for which he has no productions to give in exchange, he... | |
 | 1841 - 504 páginas
...principal trade is in slaves. In no part of the world is this odious traffic carried to greater excess. " The price given for a slave on the coast is usually...valued at from eight to ten Spanish dollars; from sixty tc seventy rupees (five or six pounds sterling) being obtained by the traders for them at Bali, and... | |
 | George Windsor Earl - 1853 - 312 páginas
...kept as inferior wives by the Ceramese — the Raja of Kilwari, among others, having a wife born at the Papuan village of Atti-Atti. The price given for...them at Bali, and other places in that direction."* Mr. Modera gives some interesting details concerning the customs of the mountaineers, (Alfoeren of... | |
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... in great esteem, so much so that their price is higher even than that given for slaves of Bali, Lombok, or Sumbawa. The women from Koby, Ay, and Karres, are considered the most attractive, and are often kept as inferior wives by the Ceramese; the... 