ABSTRACT
So far I have been speaking mainly about the north. Here again this is due not altogether to the fact that northern gardening is more important, but to certain defects in my information. 130 Nevertheless the north is the agricultural district of the Trobriands and gardening plays a relatively greater part there than in the south. In the south, on the narrow strip of land running from the isthmus (as we might call it) of Kwabulo down to the strait of Giribwa where, at one point, there is no more than half a mile of dry ground between the eastern shore and the swamps which encroach upon the land from the west, there is relatively little cultivable soil. Whole stretches of it—the wide club-shaped expanse in the south of Kaybwagina, the portion north of Kaulasi and south of Wawela—are completely barren, being covered with swamps and coral rocks.
