The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-09-26

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more than those who are brought up at our Ian
caserian and national schools. They also have
codes of laws of great antiquity, and it is from
Il regard for these laws, and veneralion for the
institutions of their ancestors that they cat each
other; the law declares that for certain crimes,
four in number, the criminal shall be eaten Alive.
The same law declares also that in great wars,
that is to say one district with another it shall
be lawful TO eat the prisoners, whether taken
alive dead or in their graves.
ain the four great cases of crimes, the criminal
is also duly tried and condemned by compe-
tent tribunal. When the evidence is heard, SEN
tence is pronounced, and the chiefs drink drachm
each, which last ceremony is equivalent to signing
and sealing, with lis. Two or three days then
elapsed to give time for assembling the people,
and in cases of adultery it is not allowed to carry
the sentence into effect unless the relations ofthc
wife appear and partake of the feast The prs-
oner is then brought forward on the day appoint
ed, and fixed to q stake with hands extended
The husband or party injured, comes and takes
the first choice, generally the ears: the rest them
according to their rank, take the choice pieces,
each helping himself according to his liking
After all have partaken, the chief person goes
up and cuts off the head which lie carries home
as trophy The head is hung up in front of the
house, and the brains are carefully preserved in
bottle, for the purposes of wchcraft, &c. In
devouring the flesh it is sometimes eaten raw, and
sometimes grilled but 1t must be eaten on the
spot.
"Limes, altand pepper are always in readiness,
and they sometimes rico with the flesh, but
never drink toddy or spirits many carry bam-
boos with them, and filling them with blood,
drink it off. The assembly consists of men
alone, the flesh is prohibited to the fema les it
is said, however, that they get bit by stealth
now and then. l am assured, and really do be-
leve, that many of the people prefer human flesh
to any other; but Notwithstanding this pendant
they never indulge the appetite except on lawful
occasions. Tie palms of the hands, and The
soes of the feet, are the dcicacies of cpicures
On expressing my surprise at the continuance of
such extraordinary practices was told that for
mery i; was usual for the people to cat their pa
rents when they were too old for work. The old
people selected the horizontal branch of large
tree, and quietly suspended themselves by their
hands, while their children and neighbors, form
ing circle, danced round them crying out
When the fruit is ripe, then it will fall AS
soon:as the victims became fatgued, and could
hold on no longer, they fell down, when all hands
cut them OIL, and made hearty meal of them.
This practice took place during the season of
lines, when salt and pepper were plentiful: of
late years, however, it has been abandoned, and
thus u step in civilization has been attained, and
therefore there are hopes of future Improvement.
This state of society you will admit to be very
peculiar It is calculated that certainly not less
than from sixty to one hundred persons are thus
eaten in year in the time of peacc.''
Observation-Disclosures c. Cooper, gentle
man who has retired from medical practice, gives
in the New York Commercial Advertiser, a mode
of treatment for disease of the lungs, which in an
experience Of more than twelve years, he found
generally effective in curing consumptive pa
tients.
The treatment, says he, is the al ninstration
of.sulphate of copper in nauseatmg doses, COM
hined with gum ammoniac; given so as to nau-
seae, but not ordinarily to produce full vonlitng
the usual dose for this purpose is about half n
grain, and five grnins Of the respective ngredi-
ents, in tea-spoon-full of water to be taken, at
first twice, and in the convalescent stages once
a day.
In cases of chro mic bronchitis gargle of the
sulphate of copper alone is superadded. In this
latter form of consumption this treatment almost
invariably suspends the hectic symptoms in a
few days, and the disease rapidly advances to its
final cure. - .
In cases of the more proper forms of consump-
ton, the treatment must be intermitted frequently
and ouoir, cd tn win
of the chest or other symptoms of indamatory
action exist, the treatment should be suspended
Me chronic state alone that the remedy
Dor useful that state in which the
COW xVE4f the general system ssympathetically
involved becomes the more prominent symptom,
and the success of the treatment depends chiefly
on the breaking up this sympathetic action of the
diseased lung. on the more healthy tone of the