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They would give up German New Guinea, or Southwest Africa -- anything!
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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South Latitude, and is distant about sixty sea-miles from the westernmost point of German New Guinea.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Cameroons, and "German East" were initiated, that every encouragement was given to the projects set on foot by the Australasian Governments for the conquest of German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago,
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Sixty miles from the western end of the island is the mountainous land of German New Guinea; and sometimes, when the air is clear and the south-east trade wind blows, the savages on Berara can see across the deep, wide strait the grey loom of the great range that fringes the north-eastern coast of New Guinea for many hundred miles.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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Archipelago; this island lies due east from German New Guinea. "
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