GOLDSEEKERS IN PAPUA.
HOSTILE NATIVES. SYDNEY, Sept. 18. Goldseekers who arrived to-day from Papua tell a stirring story of adven; tures in prospecting in the Tauri River region. The way was difficult over towering limestone mountains, and ihe natives, though outwardly friendly, were really hostile. One party "was compelled to fire on the natives, who frequently left bunches of broken arrows in the white men’s path as a sign that they were to get out. The Kukuku tribesmen and headhunters made two attacks on the whites’ camp, but were repelled.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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90GOLDSEEKERS IN PAPUA. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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