DOREY or Dori, IL village in New Guinea, in which the houses are built on posts in the water, and are reached by long rude bridges. The houses are low, in the form of a boat bottom upwards. In Dori the Papuans are called Myfore. They are about 6 feet 8 inches high ; few attain 5 feet 6 inches. They wear their crisped hair its full length, and generally uncared for, which gives them a wild, scared appearance. The men, not the women, wear a comb. The beard is crisp. The forehead is high and narrow ; eyes large, dark brown, or black ; nose flat and broad ; mouth large, lips thick, and t,eeth good ; few have regular features, and most aro apathetic. The ordinary men wear a waist-cloth made of the bark of a tree, called Mar, which is wrapped round the waist and passed between the legs. Women wear a short sarong to the knee, generally of blue cloth. Men and women tattoo their bodies, by pricking the skin with a fish bone and rubbing in lamp black. The Dori people are seafarers, fishers, and traders, and are expert swimmers and divers. Their prahus have outriggers, and are excavated from the trunk of a single tree. Their food con sists of millet, obi, maize, a little rice, fish, and hogs' flesh, and fruits ; sago is imported in small quantities. Theft is considered a grave offence. The people resemble tho Ke and Aru islanders.
Their colour is a deep brown, often approaching closely to black. On a pole near the stem of the boat, they place, chiefly for ornament, a thin, finely-mrved red-and-white striped plank, some times furnished with the image of a Papuan's head, with out-sticking hair, made from gomuti fibres or cassowary feathers. Respect for the agetl, love of their children, fidelity to their wives, are traits which reflect honour on their disposition. Chastity is held in high regard, and is a virtue which is seldom transgressed by them. A 1111111 can only have ono wife, and is bound to her for life. Concubinage is not permitted. Adultery is unknown amongst thetn. They are genemlly very fond of strong drink. They do not make any ferinented liquor, not even sagoweer or tuak. Kidnapping is general in these countries. The hilhnen, or Arfak, of the interior are generally black, but some are brown. Their hair, though always more or less frizzly, is sometimes short and matted. The Arfak mountains are about ten thousand feet high, and inhabited by savage tribes. Birds of paradise aro brought to Dori for sale from Amberbaki, about a hundred miles west. —Wallace, ii. p. 184; Earl, p. 71; Journal of the Ind. Arch., June 1852, pp. 312 to 317.