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"It's a different type of medicine," he recalls. "You had so little, not even soap to wash your hands." But Baquie also admired the home-made tattoos worn by some of the native women. Next thing he knew, he had agreed to a tattoo for himself.

The numbers on his left arm - 8549 - spell out the name of the woman who did it, carving the crude design with a sewing needle. On his other arm is a simple cross, but it's not religious. "It was going to be a sun," he smiles. "But it got too painful so I made them stop."

A spirit of adventure took a young doctor from middle-class Melbourne - the son of an engineer and a librarian - to rugged New Guinea. When he arrived back in Australia, that same spirit sent Baquie to the Gippsland town of Foster as a country GP. There he raised children, played football and mended country bodies, pursuits that were often related.
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