The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1867-06-01

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easiah . youbg feIce Invited 4 uIs
slonafy u attend lia mothers lansy.
~ The reverend gentleman, muot
asionlahed 70 perceive 10 o,r,.aa n
tlie procession, made inquiries. a.
lelleately ~ lie eatId frame them, II
the bertaved yafng man, who Al
ones pointed out hIa mother, walklnv
alone as gay and lively as any II tbe
party The grave was dug ipur leet
deep by her afTectionatc relatives,
and after an alociionaie parting. tLe
poor old lady, atlll extraordinarily
cheerful was buried alive. During
tlie first year n This missionafy's re-.
ideueo at sonosomo, there was only
one instance VI natural deatht and
when Captain Wilkes inquired for
"tbe old peoplcp In town number.
ing some hundreds Of inhabitants, alI
under forty years Of age, he WINS IN
formed that they were all buried
bnt tho fact Is, IN The case Of Feioe.
ans, they are actuatcd by the belief,
not only In a future existence. bui
that as they leave this world, so they
will rise again; they have, therefore,
powerful motive for quitting The
world before they are weakened by
old age; and they look with horror
upon their neighbors, the Samoans,
who do not bury people alive, as
skeptical and irrcligious.
Cafelessness Of human life il per-
haps the most prominent characters
tic of barbarism, notwithstanding
that the living sometimes express re, q
gret for the departed. The widow Of
an Andaman Islander wears his skull
by the way of a jet necklace; and
tho feleeans themselves burn their
skin into blisters, and cut off the end
joints Of the small toe and fifth fin-
ger, in order to express decent sor-
row. And yet these last named peo-
pie are not only cannibals, but epi-
cures ~ human flesh. s'The greatest
praise they can bestow upon any del
icacy, is to say it is as tender as a dead
man." They are SO fhstidious as 70
dislike the taste Of white men, (which
Is fortunatefor the missionariics.y i to
prefer the flesh of females to that of
males, and to consider the arm above
the elbow, and the thigh as the best
joints. They have no term for n
corpse which does not signify some
thing edible; and human flesh il
known among them as "long pig.Y
Slaves are fattened up for great en-
tertainments, and always roasted
alive; and the chief of Raki Raki. |
who is very particular in his eating,
j. said tqhave. defpured nine hun |
,dred persons himself, permitting no
one (greedy dogD to sliare them with
him. Ii is to be observed that the
Fejeeans have On immence abundance
Of provisions, and are, therefore,
cannibals from choice. A gratifica.
tion Of the palate actuates them |; but
with the man-cating Maori, or New
Zelander, such Is by no means the
case. The bodies which they prefer
after battle are not those plump
captive maidens, but of the most cel-
ebrated chiefs, no matter how old and
dry. They believe that they thus
appropriate to themselves not only
the material substance, but the spirit,
ability and glory Of the person de-
voured; and, on the other hand a
Maori, above all things, breads the
fate since his soul Is thereby extin- (
and all his own advantages /
go 70 magnify bis foe.
Other nations, again, are cannibals |
BY compulsion; they have no positive :
objection TO human food, any more !
han sailor has to salt meet. but /
they prefer other things if they can ,
get them. When the inhabitants Of J
Terra del Foego, for example, quar- |,
rel, they have, very literally "a bone !
o pick" with one another after the |
,ontest but they do not, as A pener- 9
i rule, deyour their personal friends c
ret, "ln severe winter,s says Admiral $
Fitzroy, "when they can obtain no I
,tber food, they take the oldest wo. ]
nan Of the party, hold her head over Q
thick smoke made by burninggrcen '
wood, and, pinching her throat. choke a
ler," after which she makes her ap- v
on the supper table. When a
demonstrated with, and asked why I
lid not rather kill their dogs, they b
nswered briefly but to the point /. ?
Dogs catch ioppo"-that Is, otters. "
'onceive lady of age and position y
eing treated in such manner at a J
icnic Qor instance,) where the pig ?
on-pie has chanced to be forgotten Z
mong ourselvesl Il
Among the Sea Dyaks, it's thought Z
great eomplimcut to departed d
rlend to eat him, and some Brazilian :.
ribes drink their dead | "About a d
ionth after the funeral, they disinter n
be corpse, which Is then much de- Q
omposed, and put il into great pan d
yer the fire ill all the volatile parts Q
re driven of, leaving only beside !.
orrible odnr) black carbonaceous Y
lass, which 10 pounded into a powder, Y
liked IN large conchs Of caxiri, and p
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