"By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" Accounts of the 1926 Smithsonian-Dutch Expedition to New Guinea

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Annotations to the Journal of Stanley Hedberg

Date of Note/View Entry Keyword(s) Note

July 20, 1926 bagoose macan
[sic, = bagus makan]

Bagus makan (rather ungrammatical Malay) means “eat well; good food.”

 

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