Interview between A Collyns and Captain Roger, New Guinea Explorer. 1945-08-02.

Interview between A Collyns and Captain Roger, New Guinea Explorer. Captain Roger relates his experiences exploring Papua New Guinea. He describes the hot jungle and relationship with the native people, who attacked his party several times. On one occasion they fired flaming arrows and ambushed them, fortunately they did not have poisoned arrows.
He talks about making contact with the native people and which aspects of the explorers and their equipment interested them, some of which were surprising.
The interviewer asks about cannibalism; Capt. Roger relates an incident of a skirmish between two tribes across a river. One tribe wanted to retrieve the bodies of two of their people but the other tribe had already eaten them.
He also talks about the people's superstitions and belief in witchcraft. He says the people are constantly fighting each other; the men fight and hunt and the women do all of the other work. They are regarded as chattels, but not as valuable as pigs. Men are valued firstly by the number of their pigs, then the size of their garden, then the number of wives.
On one evening he was writing by the light of his hurricane lantern, when two arrows pierced his tent. He sent more guards out and put out the light and in the morning there was a hostile crowd around them.
He tells a story about native Papuans seeing a plane for the first time.