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S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S • 125 "The coastline between Port Moresby and the mouth of the Purari was safe enough, but between the Purari and the Turama a solitary stranger ran an excellent chance of being eaten. It was a mystery how he escaped arrest on the first part of his journey, but how he escaped being eaten on the second part was a still greater one. Being a Bushman, he of course could neither swim nor manage a canoe, and there is a wide network of river and sea to traverse. I gathered fragments of his story: how the Urama people had hunted him in canoes while he waded through water up to his neck; how other savages had chased him like a water-rat through the swamps, firing arrows at him all the while; how he stole a canoe and drifted somewhere. Finally, he appeared to have come to land near Bell Point on the Turama, where instead of being eaten, he was treated kindly and given a wife." – Wilfred N. Beaver Unexplored New Guinea, 1920 Photo © Jimmy NelsoN Pictures BV, www.JimmyNelsoN.com, www.faceBook.com/Jimmy.NelsoN.official