"Papua" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... perhaps the most important of the islands in this archipelago, although at present the most barbarous, and the most hostile to us, is that of Papua, or New Guinea. The inhabitants are as well inclined to commerce as the other natives of the archipelago, and do at present carry on a considerable trade with the Chinese, who repair there every year in their junks, which they fill with valuable cargoes adapted for the Chinese market. ...
— Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery • Frank S. Marryat
... Aetas, or Negritos, were the primitive inhabitants of the Philippine Islands; but their origin is not certainly known. It is perhaps most probable that they came from Papua or New Guinea. For various opinions on this point, see Zuniga's Estadismo (Retana's ed.), i, pp. 422-429; Delgado's Historia general, part i, lib. iii, cap. i; and Report of U.S. Philippine Commission, 1900, iii, pp. 333-335. Invasions of the islands ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, V7, 1588-1591 • Emma Helen Blair |
