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Lewis
His Wife & her sister,
was a great library of travel
books in his home many
of which he has read. He told
me of his 4 years travel in
New Guinea Island showed me
many photos he took there.
He said the natives were fairly
friendly he had no trouble but
travel in the interior was
impossible because of no
food or transport except
natives who eat themselves
or food up in 16 days. The
climate he said was said
by experts to be the worst
Malarial area in the world
[illegible] who knew West Africa
& India. He has published
nothing about his New
Guinea travel however. I
met Gerhard & a new Main
chief of Stanford who now
has the Reptiles & the fishes
in the museum.