The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-24
HUMAN FLESH AS A RELISH.
BODIES OF RELATIVES SERVED
EN- FAMILLE.
Data Upon CannibaIism Gathered from All
Parts of the World. Interesting
Discoveries.

Discoveries
Cannioalism has been made a special
study recently by the bureau of ethnolo-
gy at Washington. Data on the subject
has been gathered from all parts of the
world which is particularly interesting
in view of discoveries pointing to the
conclusion that this horrible practice is
far more widespread than was imagined.
Stanley claimed that 10000, 900 cannibals
dwell in the basin of the Congo today
people who relish human flesh above all
other meat. Perhaps the most peoul-
lar form of cannibalism is found in GER
tain mountainous districts of northeast
Bnrmah, where there are tribes that fol-
low life in all important respe> is like
that OF wild beasts. These people eat
the CONCEALED blood of their enemies.
The blood is poured into bamboo reeds,
and in the course OF time, being corked
up, it hard0ns. The filled reeds are
hung under the roofs of the huts, and,
when person desires to treat his friend
very Hospitality the reeds are broken
and the contents devoured.
The black natives of Australia are all
protested cannibals. DR.. Carl Lum-
boltz, Norwegian scientist, spent many
months studying them in the wllds of
the interior, He was alone among these
savages, who are extremely treacherous.
Wearing no clothing whatever, and
living nearly every respect as monkeys
do, they know no such thing as graft
|tude and have no feeling that can prop
|erly be termed human. Only fear of the
Travellers weapons kept them from Stay
|ing him, and more than once he lad
barrow escape. One of the first of them
whom he employed looked more like
brute than man, when he talked,''
bays the doctor, she rubbed his belly
with complacency, as if the sight of me
made his mouth water" This individu-
al was regarded with much respect by
by his fellows, because of his success in
procuring human flesh to eat. These
Aborigines say that the white mans
Resh is salt and occasions nausea. A
Ehinaman they consider as good for eat
fng as black man, his food being chief
Nv vegetable
Il The most horrible development of can
blbalism among the Australian blacks is
PIE eating of defunct relatives. When "a
Rerson dies there follows an elaborate
ceremony, which terminates with the
lowering of the corpse in the grave. In
nc grave is man not related to the de-
eased who proceeds to cut off the fat
8dhering to the muscles of the face.
sArms, thighs and stomach nd passes it
hound to be swallowed by some of the
fear relatives. Ali those who have eat
u of the cadaver have a black ring of
charcoal powder and fat drawn around
sc mouth. The order in which the
pourners partake Oh their dead relatives
y duly prescribed. The mother eats of
er children and the children of theil.
"a other. man eats of his sisters hus-
and and of his brothers wife. Moth
rs brothers, mothers sisters, sisters
ahidren, mothers parents and daugh-
$ children are also eaten by those to
#hom the deceased person stands in
pch relation. But the father does not
i of his children, nor the children of
heir sire.
The New zea anders, up to very re-
m times, were probably the most an
8ropopbagous race that ever existed.
many as 1000 prisoners haye been
8u-hter,d by them at one tins after
cceSS 'ul battle, the bodies being baked
ovens underground. If the individ-
consumed had been redoublable en-.
y they dried his head as trophy and
dc flutes out of his thigh bones.
Among the Monbuttos of Africa hui
a lat IS commonly employed for
'e'y OF purposes. The explorer.
Weinturth, speaks of writing out in
evenings his memoranda respecting
80 people by the light of a little oil
PIP conlriVed by himself, which was
RpH'd with some questionable look
grease furnished by the natives. |
smell OF this grease, he said, could
# IAN TO arouse ones worst supleions
INST the negroes. According to his
punt the Monbuttos are the most
lrmed cannibals in Africa. Sur
noed as they are by number of
ple who are blacker than themselves.