"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

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October 8, 1926 Abegs [sic]

The Malay word for “sweet potato or edible tubers” is ubi.

 

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