Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-06-27
VOLUME VII, NO. 26.


more than once present when it has been put in
practice"
T. "Describe what takes place on such oc
casions."
II. "Three posts are faed in the ground; to
the middle one the body of the prisoner or Grim.
nal is made fast, while his arms and legs are
extended TO the two others. THE narrator and
other chiefs present, here simultaneously made
with their arms and legs the figure Of st.
Andrews cross.) On sigma being given, every
one entitled to a share in the feast rushes on
him with hatchets and knives, and many with
no other instrument than their teeth and nails,
he is thus in a few minutes entirely cut and
torn to pieces, and have seen the quests so
keen at rePast Of this description as severely
to wound each others hands and fingers A
mixture of lime.juice, salt, and chilles, propar.
cd in the shell Of cocoa nut, is always at hand
on the occasions, in which many dip the flesh
previous to eating it"
T. "Then the prisoner Is not previouy put
to death, but devoured alive by pece-meal ?"
A. "The first wounds he receives are from the
hatchets, knives, and teeth of his assailants, but
these are so numerous and Simultaneous as 10
cause almost immediate DEATH"
All the other chiefs present more than once
joined with him in these answers; which left
little room to doubt that, to most of them a.
least, such seems were familiar.
In the course of several years experience Of
Life in New York, we have never heard of any
individual being disposed Of quite SO sumna.
Iily.
THE WILD PEOPLE OF CERAM.
The Alforese inhablting the interior of Ger
am, live in the tops of the Wasinje and other
high trees with wide branches and cachtr is
the habtation of a whole family. They adopt
this mode because they dare not trust even
those of their own nation; as they surprise
them during the night, and kill whoever they
can lay hold Of"
This might truly be described as a surprise.
ing people," But the account if the Forest
Tribe of the Malay Peninsula is yet more
wonderful. They are styled
THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE.
lit seems there is branch of this great fam.
lily in Asia. We have some members of it in
New York; and Boston is oyerrun with them
There they edit a Review.
In reading the following account one may
trace coincidence between our Original Peo.
pie and the Malay tribe, in what is said of their
language, and especially of their religion)
"The Original People live in the dead of the
forest. They never come down to the village
for fear of meeting any one. They live on the
fruits of the forest, and what they take in hunt
ing, and neither SOW nor plant
When young man and woman have engaged
to marry, they proceed to hillock; the woman
first runs round it three times, when the man
pursues if he can get hold of her she becomes
his wife, otherwise the marriage does not take
place, and they return to their respective fami-
lies. Their language is not understood by anv
one; they lisp their words the sound Of whchis
like the noise of birds, and their utteance ls
very indistinct. They have neither king nor
chief of any kind but there is one man whom
they style Puyung, to whom they refer all their
requests and complaints, and they invariably
adopt his decision
"They have no religion: no idea Of Su.
preme Being, creation of the world, soul of
man, sin, heaven, hell, angels, or day of Iudg-
ment. They have no priests; the Puyung ILL
structs them in matters relative to solcery,
ghosts and evil spirits, in the belief of which
they are influenced. The never quarrel or 90
to war with another tribe In sickness they use
the roots and leaves of trees as Medicines
When one of them dies the head only is buried
| the body is eaten by the people, who collect IN
=, large numbers for that purpose"
f This account is from printed sheet obtained
9 at Singapore.
: THE WILD PEOPLE OF BoRNEo.
!, These are described by Dalton in the Sin
t gapore Chronicle, 1881;
"Further towards the north are to be fount
men living absolutely in a state of nature; whc
neither cutiyase the ground nor live in hus
= who neither eat rice nor SAIL and who do moi
+. associate with each other; but rove about
c some woods like wild beasts. The sexes meet
G in the Jungle, or the man carries away woman
from some company. When the children are
old enough to shift for themselves, the usually
= separate, neither one afterwards thinks of the
# other At night they sleep under some large
d tree, the branches of which hang low; on these
I.t Il; - nd g.
s Around the tree they make fire to keep off the
d wild beasts and snakes. They cover themselves
n with piece Of bark aud in this they wrap their
children. 1t is soft and warm, but will not keep
l. out the rain.
o "These poor creatures are looked upon and
J, treated by the Dayaks as wild beasts. Hunt
!. ing parties Of twenty-five and thirty go out and
II amuse themselves with shooting at the children
t, in the trees with the sumpit the same as mon.
:. KEYS, from which thes not easily distinguish.
). cd The men taken in these excursions are
d Invariably killed, and the women commonly
l. spared, if they are young. 1t is somewhat re-
n r,arkoble. that the children Of the wild people
? cannot be sufficiently tanned to be intrusted with
:, their Ibedv. Soge told ME he never recol-
;. ected an instances when they didnot escape to
II the Jungle the very first opportunity, nowith
e standing many of them had been treated kindly
q for wears. The consequence is, all the chiefs
II Yb1 called themselves civilized, no sooner take
them but they cut off foot, sticking the STUMP
v into bamboo of molten damar; their escape is
# hus prevented, and their services in padding