The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-03-07
LAxcAsrERyrLLE, Dec. 25, l648.

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OYSTER WAn.--We learn from a gen.
tcman Just arrived from the Eastern Shore
Of Virg mia that serious collision took pace
few days since, in the neighborhood OF
Drummcndlown, between the citizens OF
that section and number Of depredatorS
from Philadelphia. The facts, as we learn
them, are these: A fleet Of some twenty
boats from Philadelphia recently entered
tha. quarter Of the Bay and commenced
taking oysters from the Virginia banks with
dredging machines, in direct violation ofthc
known laws of the Stale, which prohibit tn II
mode of taking oysters. under penalty of
$3.50. and in open defiance o: her local au-
,horics. The people whose rights were
thus invaded determined finally to lake the
matter in their own hands, and to drive the
marauders from ther shores orald tha autho
rifles in arrcsling them. Accordingly, five
small boats were manned and armed with
two pieces Of cannon, thus prepared the Vr-
ginians came upon the Philadelphia fleet,
and an engagement cnsucd, IN which one
oystcrman was killed and a mast OF one Of
their schooners cut away by cannon shut.
The fleet was then driven into the mouth OF
creek, where the VIrginians succeeded in
taking ninety Of the party prisoners, whom
they conveyed to Drummondtown, in Ac-
comac county, where they were lodged IN
Jail. By some informally in The original
warrant the legal proceedings were qnashcd,
but the magistrates had issued a new prnce SIS,
and strenuous efforts were making to bring
the aggressors to Justice. In the course OF
the skIrmish one Of the Virginians was shot
the ball entering near the mouth and com
ing out al the side of the head, carrying a.
way one Of his ears. Our informant states
that great excitement prevailed throughout
the neighborhood Of Drummondtown.
Bal. Amer.
CANS1BAL1sM IN FEJEE.-The Fegee Is
landers indulge in the delec,able practice of
broiling and eating human bodies, and they
train their children to the taste by rubb ng
The flesh over the infants lips This p; ac-
tice succeeds admirably, according to the re-
cent published account from missionary,
for we find that the practice Is general, and
that slice of humanity is better relIshabIe
than anv other kind of food. S"me of the
Fececans carry their epicurean gus, SO far
that they not merely kill and eat their ene-
mics, but live upon their friends, and these
are frequently eaten raw! The Chief OF
Ragl Ragi has been known to have good
supply Of human flesh in his box, salted
down, and has lived upon it as his daily lood'
seldom eating any other kind of flesh. The
flesh of women is rather better than the flesh
of men and when the Chief wants some
thing very delicate, or, in case many bodies
arc befnrc him, child is roasted for his re-
past. Mr.. Hunt asserts, and other MISSION
aries confirm it, that the Feejean language
contains no word for corpse but the word
they use, 6akola, conveys the idea OF eating
the dead. This is their war cry when one
of their enemy is slain and his body found
"Here is dead body to be eaten"-.lhe word
thew use IS bakola. They also affirm that
within the las, four years fully one thousand