Chapter I: Prologue: 3

I. INTRODUCING NAGAPATE 6

II. SYDNEY AND NEW CALEDONIA 23

III. THE THRESHOLD OF CANNIBAL-LAND 39

IV. NAGAPATE COMES TO CALL 49

V. IN NAGAPATE’S KINGDOM 71

VI. THE BIG NUMBERS SEE THEMSELVES ON THE SCREEN 94

VII. THE NOBLE SAVAGE 100

VIII. GOOD-BYE TO NAGAPATE 116

IX. THE MONKEY PEOPLE 123

X. THE DANCE OF THE PAINTED SAVAGES 138

XI. TOMMAN AND THE HEAD-CURING ART 152

XII. THE WHITE MAN IN THE SOUTH SEAS 161

XIII. ESPIRITU SANTO AND A CANNIBAL FEAST 175

ILLUSTRATIONS

MEN OF ESPIRITU SANTO _Frontispiece_

THE WATCHER OF TANEMAROU BAY 14

NAGAPATE 18

A BEACH SCENE 24

LOOKING SEAWARD 36

DANCE OF TETHLONG’S MEN 46

A CALL FROM NAGAPATE 62

THE SAFE BEACH TRAIL, TANEMAROU BAY 68

LOOKING OVER NAGAPATE’S KINGDOM FROM THE HIGHEST PEAK IN
NORTHERN MALEKULA 74

WOMEN OF THE BIG NUMBERS 78

RAMBI 84

ATREE AND NAGAPATE 88

HUNTING FOR THE MAGIC 98

A CANNIBAL AND A KODAK 98

NAGAPATE AMONG THE DEVIL-DEVILS 110

ONE OF THE MONKEY MEN 128

WO-BANG-AN-AR 134

SOUTHWEST BAY 138

WOMAN AND CHILD OF THE LONG-HEADS, TOMMAN 142

THE PAINTED DANCERS OF SOUTHWEST BAY 148

THE OLD HEAD-CURER 154

A CLUB-HOUSE IN TOMMAN WITH MUMMIED HEADS AND BODIES 158

TOMMAN WOMEN, SHOWING GAP IN TEETH 162

DWARFS OF ESPIRITU SANTO 182

THE CANNIBAL DANCE 188

CANNIBAL-LAND