The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-29
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nesh- EatIag Flends In Ecstacy.

In n dimly-ligbted room ON the third
eoor Of sailors boarding house In James
alp. Leroy Strickland last nisht told
story of his adventures In New Guinea.
where three years ago he .Dcounterd
hand OF oanribsls aud narrowly escsbcd
death al their hands. He 10 iust recover
ing nom . d. OF sickness. He arrived In
this country few weeks sgo, aud was i'm
medistely prostIaIed by the exposnre TO
which he hsd been subjected. and by tbe
unsccustomsd seventy VI u sailors li's
He told his story bsl,ingly and In tones thut
best expressed the fearful adventure
through which he had passed; ,,
II was o painter IN New South wales,
Australia :" Ne ssid. and had been doing
4 vol for rome Year.. ] bsd accumulated
little property and was tclerably conteDted
with my lot About four yesrs ago tue
Temors gold.felds swsps everything. ]
sold out my stock, abandoned my business,
and with the money hsd s T 'oe rhaei
"A party of 10 stsksd on our CLAIMS and
worked together for Sn months, when the
d.ld plsy ed out, and We went bsck to
Cookstown, North Quesnslsnd. Some
time before We got 10 Uookstovn, the gov
eminent OF QaeenslaHd sent French ear
veyor out 10 New Guinea In n sMsll steam.
err, IN order " prosrsct the country, pre-
yious b another attempt NJ annexation.
ATTACHED BY sATIvu.
hat secceeded in killing several and re-
turned TO Cookatown without injury. Il.
gave glowing account OF the country, aud
said that there we're gnlo pockets al sloDs
the coast and mines In the Interior. This
ne VIZ was sufficient To start tho spirit of AZ
venture among ny cotupaniOns OF Temorn,
pHd we rgfe.d 10 ilt out two heavy lite.
boats, st ick them WIN provisions, ~ d
make our wov "crsss 10 New Guinea 20 una
gold. II vas November 10 1880 thai ten
of MS In two nosth, rtsTtrd from Cooks
town. We rowed across II Thursday Is
l.nd, where we rock IN a quantity of PFC
visions and had heavy wire netting placed
over our bosts to protect us from tue
weapons Of tho savsges. ~ took rs Gay
to row from the island - Neg Guioea, oS-
log to head winds. We arrived At
tho coast near the mouth OF
the Fly river, aud rowed our bobt,
directly into the s,ream. The country NJ
uesred to US TO be deserted. and we made
several landings, VII re- We found gclt Ia
small quantities. We continued up the
. river until wo had got, ~ near ~ We could
reckon, aooRt 6Itarn miles into the inte-
rior. Observing bluR some dietAnce IRON
the shore, We rowed up 3, the beach aud
prepared TO land, taking with US our rihes
slung lcroes our backs, and pans for wash
lag the GOLD. Six mes landed, four remsin-
ing TO care for the bosts. We had net been
on shore more than half an hour when
party Of natives, numbering. perhaps
twenty Eve, appeared on tho bluff and
began throwing their weapon at us. We
)unslnng our rnes and drove them bsck.
y We walked about hslt q mile back from
the shores of the river and were congrstu-
lsting ourselves on sae success OF our yer :
ture when we
nKAIp pE.psHIEs YuL',
nsh
us ut their utmost speed. IL was too late
20 make ANY oofsnse. We could do moth
ing but escspe vita our lives at beat.
Throwing everything OF asy weight We had
about us 10 the ground. We sprsng in shs
direction OF The boats, but not before Wil'
liam Guiieuu had been Killed by wadi'
vadi. On our way 20 the shore George
Johpsoa wss also killed ~ boomerang,
and IS / VAS cxsving into ono Of tue boat.
a boomernpg srr>ck ma oa the head and
/ lost consciousness. When We were once
in the boats were ssie. bat then
we saw what krrible tate had befallen
q lr dead CON parions. As We rowed away
va sav the csnnibsls seine the bodies and
atrIp them. rSen 'hey rYied them to the
ton of the bluR and bsilt y Ere, around
which. as the hsnee grew fsreef. they cir.
cled at Rsddsned paos. They h0wted
and shrieked In exulsadsa - taeir Victory,
and atter they hsS exssssscd themselves
they eQuetvN eUOut 80 ITO ~ 10y ~
compaeiUus ipts tAs hsnes. IBorced that
the human hesh burned win blue blses,
and the sight was ssch horrible one that
/ tainted, When I recovered saw them
TEA DgYs TEE n ~
From the bpns and eeCns 10 amid the
most discurdsnt ssunds l evss hexd. and
Alter they had Aaished ~ terfhl reDsst
thew Jun pel 10 tAstr Test again. As Ne
passed sround a curve II tee rives they
were still shrtsktsg Ike issxas.s sends.
Bssides we mon who wses killed, Aeory
Peters and George Thomas Were lady
wounded with spesrs. Wasa - ssrivrd vt
Thursdsy Islssd tAsy we're 1850 a. a
hospital when We got sssk 70 sssk"o IN
eur story cfftsfsAliy prsvsa' - any like
adventure. lie sat,ves svs hardy race,
smau il sswtare. asd htAsessy
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