Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-01-15

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enemies killed in battle, and if a man
has deadly spite against another he
does not feel that his revenge has been
satisfied until he has eaten q piece of
his heart stewed in its own blood. In
fractions of any of the social laws are
punishable with death, and the body
of the culprit, after having been cut
into sections, is distributed in the Mar
ket-place, that all may eat and be warn
ed of the terrible punishment that
awaits the law breaker. In fact" con-
tinued Captain Bienaime, "the worst
punishment that can befall man in
the Marquesas is to be killed and eaten
by his fellow islanders"
Santa Dominica is situated in latitude
nine degrees thirty minutes south and
longitude 1873 degrees 40 minutes east,
and, together with the other islands of
the Marquesas group, has nOminally
been under French dominion since 1841.
The natives are brave, and when they
have reason to believe their rights are
being tampered with are very vindica-
tive. A number of sailors and officers
of whaling and merchant ships have
been killed by them at different times
since the islands were discovered. A
year ago a convoy Of provisions, while
en- route between two settlements of the
French colony, on the island of New
Caledonia, was captured, and the men
who were accompanying it, twelve in
number, were taken prisoners. Fearing
for their fate, the Lamothe Piquet, be-
ing in the neighborhood, was dis
patched along the coast to obtain It'd
ings of them. They effected landing
at the point where the train had been
captured, and surprised the savages
while about to feast upon the bodies of
the captured Frenchmeh. The would
be banqueters fed at their approach,
but were pursued and fifteen of them
killed. The scene upon the beach,
Captain Bieuamie says, where they
landed was sickening in the extreme.
Several large blocks, similar to those
used by butchers, were standing q short
distance back from the shore. These
were reeking with blood, and near them
were massed the trunks of their cOun-
trymen, denuded of their heads, and
limbs, and their bowels torn down to
get at the heart, which is esteemed
delicacy. Piled up near by were the
skulls and bones of the arms and legs,
scraped clean of the flesh. The flesh
from the limbs was cut into steaks or
roasts, and broiling and sizzling over
the Goals OF huge fires kindled for the
purpose, sending forth smell that was
fairly sickening. The flesh of the head,
together with the brains, they had
placed in large kettle taken from the
stove in the train, which was boiling
over the fire. The provisions, wines,
ETC., were scattered about in the great
est confusion. One of the men who ac-
Companied the French crew recognized |
among the bodies, by portions of the
still left upon them, those of
two of his sons. The father tainted at
the sight, and such was the impression
made upon his mind that he had never
fully recovered from the shock. In the
course of the conversation with Captain
Bienamie yesterday fact concerning
habits of the South Sea Island
ors was adduced which goes to disprove
5he theory generally advanced by arch
biologists that prehistoric man was not
q cannibal. They generally claim that,
lad the men of the quarternary period
1een cannibals, we should find the
1ones generally cracked for the mar
'Ow, like those of the beasts, which is
lot the case; also, that had the mound
builders eaten their own species they
would have thrown the human bones
ntO heaps with those of beasts and
ishes. Captain Bienamie says that
he bones of the victims in the
darquesas and New Caledonia were
lever broken, but always scraped, and
lfter the feast was over placed in piles
lear some large palm trees. The con-
litiOn of the natives in New Caledonia,
10 states, is very deplorable, and he
it as very promising mis-
ionary field Outside of the cOnVicts
here are probably not more than 1000
White personson the island. San Fran
tSCU CkGbo
You must write as you talk, in a
natural manner, said schoolmaster to
pupil the other day. The next day
he brought q composition to school
which read somewhat as follows
Lady Washington was widow
.humph) when George Washington
married. her, 60, dear there's a blot.)
Ter name was Martha Il always did
late that name) Curtis. They had no
children (achew), but they had plenty
# slaves (tra la LAY, and they lived at
Mount Vernon (there goes the dinner
,el), and Washington's tomb is there
the soup will be oold), and there he
les to be wept over by a grateful peo-
,le who have had good square hot
neal"