01375 2200181 4500 0824803280 336692 eng The New Guinea memoirs of Jean Baptiste Octave Mouton LIV edited, with an introduction by Peter Biskup Honolulu University press of Hawaii 1974 161 p. 22 cm Pacific History Series 7 In 1880 young Jean Baptiste Mouton left Belgium and his trade as widmaker's apprentice to better his prospects in the Pacific. With his father, a leather worker, he joined the rascally Marquis de Rays's ill-fated colonising venture in New Ireland and stayed to become a wealthy trader and copra planter. Mouton was refreshingly free of the pompous superiority of most Europeans. He was not misled by his own preconceptions but sympathised with native feelings and perceived something of the relationship of customs to the institutions of kinship and authority. Indeed he married a local woman and adopted certain local practices - inevitably incurring the disapproval of his European fellow-settlers. Mouton Jean-Baptiste Octave 1866-1946 Biskup Peter BB BB 00125567 MAA 00125567 2019-05-18 00:00:00 1 LIV SPE