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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION: HOW I GOT TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA...AND WHAT CAME NEXT; Malaria intermezzi; ISLAND OF A THOUSAND TONGUES AND A WILD, WILD LANDSCAPE; Don't go talking to the neighbours!; Tok Pisin, or lingua franca the Papuan way; The magic number of 500; The rise of folklore; New Year's Eve among the natives; Malaria intermezzo: Mabura Hill, 1997; Buy the Book of Books, we have no other; Lucky seventeen; The age of darkness; The character of a New Guinea town; Wishing you a pleasant flight with Adventist Aviators!; The sight of a fleeting landscape; [plus dozens of additional notes arranged in 4 additional parts:]; OLD AND NEW CUSTOMS OF A TRIBAL SOCIETY; FOREIGNERS AND THEIR ODD IDEAS; HOW TO DO SCIENCE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA; IN CONCLUSION: TRAVEL REPORT