Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of
New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan --do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?
She had five white men and maybe forty boat's crew, black fellows from
New Guinea and New Britain; and she had come to fish beche-de-mer.
To my great surprise, Captain Nemo gave me the permission I asked for, and he gave it very agreeably, without even exacting from me a promise to return to the vessel; but flight across
New Guinea might be very perilous, and I should not have counselled Ned Land to attempt it.
When I was collecting dose liddle monkeys-it was in '79 or '80, und I was in der islands of der Archipelago-over dere in der dark"-he pointed southward to
New Guinea generally-"Mein Gott!
Once in five weeks the steamer Makambo made Tulagi its port of call on the way from
New Guinea and the Shortlands to Australia.
His people were wealthy and titled, and he went home to England and sold cat's meat, sat around their big house till they gave him more money to start a rubber plantation in the East Indies somewhere, on Sumatra, I think--or was it
New Guinea?"
She said it put her in mind of her poor father (he had been swallowed by a shark, poor man, while bathing off the coast of
New Guinea - where the connection came in, she could not explain).
There are some of them down
New Guinea way that eat the late-lamented himself, just by way of a last tidy up.
A business and trade mission has been firmed up next week for Papua
New Guinea following a meeting with the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) and a PNG envoy here.