Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-11-04

shared some OF 1t with the two who
had been sent to find out what the
trouble was. These two acknowl-
edged having eaten some of it.
OF those at the well, two others
also had died during the night-El
Mebrouck ben Mohammed and All.
med ben Tahar
After hearing this news Belkasem
ben Zebla. Belkasem ben Riaha, Amal
ben Belklim and *Fernat ben Oma,
returned to the well the same evening
Scarcely had they got there wher
more shots we've heard. Belkasen
ben Zebla killed Ahmed ben Zanoun
who was pointed out to him by the
rest as an accomplice in the murder
of the first two killed. He stripped
the corpse, cut up the flesh, made 6
meal of it in company with his com
rades, and brought back some of the
flesh to the column next morning.
We halt all the day The men sent
back to the well for water are now
ordered also to bring back the flesh
of the men killed.
Sunday. 9th March. The four
men who left last evening return in
the morning. Human flesh is offered
to Pobeguin, who at first manifests
the greatest possible repugnance, but
finally eats as the others do.
AT the same time Il very large
quantity of water is drunk, SO much
in fact that the supply is seriously
reduced. Six men start for the well
in the evening to bring back water.
These are Mohammed ben Moham-
med, Goriah ben Moni, Abdallah ben
Ahmed, Ahmed ben Amar, Abdelka-
der ben Baharia, Ahmed ben Massa-
oud. Firing is again heard. Il y 4
Rahmani ben Ahmed (also called
sci Hachichi0 and Lakhdar ben
Salah, surprised during their sleep,
are killed with revolvers. All the
men present make meal of their
flesh, which they roast; some even
eat it all raw and bleeding, and the
six men rejoin their comrades in the
evening. This day the column does
not attempt to march. Hassi el
Hadjadj is only three kilometers
away.
CRUNCHING HUMAN BONES.
Monday, March % Leave early in
the morning. About ten o'clock meet
with Djedid ben Mohammed, who
had fed from the well and tried to
distance the column. He is fieshless
and almost dying. The man is
charged with having killed two of
his comrades. 1t is decided that he
shall be killed in his turn. Some of
the men propose to cut his throat in
order that the blood may be cooked.
Pobeguin opposes this measure, and
asks who will shoot the man. There
is no answer. A moment later shot
is heard. Djedid ben Mohammed falls.
He IS Immediately quartered and cut
up-even his bones are crushed and
eaten. At Pobeguin's request the
heart and liver are kept for him.
1t will be observed that all the
men left at the well except one have
died and been eaten.-TRANs.
In the middle of the day there was
a frightful sandstorm. The water
skins are rapidly becoming exhausted
The men are obliged to cover all
their bodies with sand in order to es-
cape the blistering action of the
burning wind which blows all day.
The water supply is not sufficient
to bring the column even to Ell Mes
seguem. Five men are sent back in
the evening to the well to bring back
water to the column. These are Ell
Bouzidi ben Mohammed, Mohammed
ben Abdelkader, Belkacem ben Zebla,
Ben Chohra ben Maibb, Abdelkader
ben Boharia. On reaching the we'll
they disperse in different directions.
The only one alive of the nine men
originally left at the well-Khehfa
ben Deradji- fears for his life and
flies. During the night Ben Chohra
ben Maibb is killed and eaten. Then
Belkasem ben Kebih, Mohammed ben
Abdelkader, Mohammed ben Moham
med, Ahmed ben Ahmar and Ahmed
ben Massaoud also return to rejoin
those already sent TO the well.
uNsPEAKABLE HORRORS.
Tuesday, March 20. - We are
obliged to omit brief passage here
in the diary, describing horrors which
could not even be mentioned without
offending modesty.-TRANs. The men
who ought to have returned in the
morning do not come. Their COM
rades, knowing that they could not
be now expected to return before the
afternoon, resolved to 60 on ahead.
The provision is now com
pletely exhausted. Popgun declares
he cannot walk another step; he lies
down, and begs the men to send him
water as soon as they can. The col
umn returns to Hassi-e -Hadjadj.and
during the night meets the other men
returning. The latter had passed all
the morning and the best part OF the
day at the we'll. and left hurriedly in
the evening. Ahmed ben MassaQud
and Ferhat ben Omar had been killed
at the well, the first by Mohamed ben
Mohammed, and the second, while
asleep, by Belkasem ben Zebla. The
two wretches brought with them q
portion of the flesh of the two muir.
dered men. and were loaded down
with money.
Everybody is now in mortal fear of
Belkasem ben Zebla; he is the butcher
of the column, and acquits himself of
his frightful duty with revolving Gin