Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22
Mnnihaltsn' in Feejee.
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Australian papers state that their
latest news from Feejeo was to the ef-
feet that the rebellious tribes of noun
taineers in Feejee had not yet been
suppressed by King Cakoban's troops.
On the Ba coast there have been some
sharp fights. In one Of these, which
occurred on the 10Th of July, near Ma
Cuta, a mountain town, two white
planters-Philip Jack, of the BIZ River,
and Gresham, of Raki Raka-wore
killed by the rebels, and four others
were wounded. The Fpejeo Times, in
an account cf this fight, says there
were several natives killed and wound
ed on the government side, md a great
number also of the Gal Colos (moun.
t~aineers,) The forces had to make
their attack up a steep hill. Awaiting
them, the Kali Colos lay safely on
sconced until the troops approached,
when q front and flank fire was opened
upon them by the mountaineers, and
then the opposing forces met in a hand.
to-hand encounter, in which bayonets,
axes and clubs did deadly work. The
struggle was too hot to last long, how
Y and the Kal Colos threw away
their weapons and everything they had
and ran for their lives. Two or three
whites, with a number of natives,
followed them up towards Ma Cula,
shot several in their chase and three in
the town, which the Kal Colos set fire
to before the Government party reached
it.
Three natives OF the Government
force had been shot a day or two be-
fore, and taken to this town to be
cooked and eaten. Their heads were
found stuck upon sticks, and their
bones placed on the path, in sight of
every ~passer-by. There were hundreds
of bones in the town, which had been
cooked long before. The notorious
Bokoqera and his uncle, who, it is
said, murdered Macintosh and Spiers,
have at last been killed and eaten.
One Of the Ma Lotu tribe (friendless)
came across n of these two, wounded
in the leg, a,ld took sweet revenge for
the M L0tu man who had been driven
out of his home some years past by
this man and his tribe. No Lotu spat
on his hand and said "You burnt
my town, did you Z" and then made q
blow at his head with his battle ak,
and purposely missed his mark. He
again spat on his hands, "You killed
my people, did you?"
He kept IN tantalizing his victim foa
some time, until he saw more men
coming up, when, for fear of having
the pleasure taken out of his hands,
he chopped off the poor wretch's head,
then his arms and legs, and cut his
body into convenient pieces for carry
ing away. He took the head to the
creek, washed it, and brought it to the
camp, that the lest of them might be
satisfied as to it's identity. Bokoqera
was also cut up into pieces and
brought in. Ono of the missionaries
would have them buried, but at night
they were dug up and taken, with sew.
eral other bodies, to q respectable dis
lance from the whites and cooked, the
bukola lall (the cannibal drum) being
beaten all the time, inviting those who
might feel inclined to come to the
feast. It Is very evident that the Kal
Colos have got such a lesson as they
never dreamt of. They are already
commencing to quarrel among them
selves; those who had nothing to do
with the murder of the Burns family
are accusing those who did the deed
OF bringing all this trouble upon them
by numbering the white men.