The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14

mouth. The order in which the mourners
partake OF their dead relatives is duly
prescribed. The mother eats of her chill
dren and the children of their mother
A man eats of his sisters husband and
or MS brothers wife. Mothers brothers.
mothers sisters, sisters children motn-
ers parents and daughters children are
also eaten by those to whom the de-
ceased person stands in such relation
put put the father does not eat of his chill
/uLen, nor the children of their sire.
The New Zealanders, up to very recent
umes We're probably the most anthro-
pophagous race that ever existed As
many Is 1000 prisoners have been slaugh-
tered by them at one time after a success
tul battle, the bodies being baked in ovens
underground If the individual consum-
ca mad been redoubtable enemy they
dried his head as a trophy and made flutes
Of his thigh bones.
Among the MOnbuttos of Africa human
"a IS commonly employed for a variety
or purposes. The explorer SchWeinfurth,
speaks of writing out in the evenings his
nemofanda respecting these people by the
Hght OF a little oil lamp cOntriVed by him
sell, which was supplied with some cues
Ionaole-looking grease furnished by the
IduE5s. me smell or THIS grease, he says,
could not fail to arouse ones worst sus-
PIGEONS against the negroes" According
TO his account the Monbuttos are the most
confirmed cannibals in Africa Surround
ed as they are by a number of peoples
VINO are blacker than themselves, and
VINO, being inferior to them in culture, are
hcid IN contempt, they carry on eNpedi-
tons of war and plumber which results in
the acquisition of a booty especially COW
eteQ Dy tnem-namely human flesh. The
bodies of all foes who fall in battle are
distributed on the field among the Vfctors
ana are prepared by drying for transpor-
tation. The savages drive their prisoners
before them, and these are reserved for
klillng at later time. During Schwein-
Iurth's residence at the court of Munza
1t was generally understood that nearly
every day a little child was sacrificed to
supply a meal for the ogre potentate. For
centuries past the slave trade in the Con-
go Basin has been conducted largely for
the purpose of furnishing human flesh
to consumers. Slaves are sold and bought
IN great numbers for market, and are
fattened for slaughter.
The Munduruous of the upper Amazon.
who are exceedingly ferocious, have been
accused of cannlbalism. 1t is they who
preserve human heads in such a remarka-
Bile way, When one of their warriors has
killed an enemy he cuts off the head with
his bamboo knife, removes the brain, soaks
the head in a vegetable oil, takes out the
skull, and dries the head by putting hot
| pennies inside of it, At the same time care
IS taken TO preserve all the feature and
| the hair intact. BY repeating the process
| with the hot pebbles many times the head
/ finally becomes shrunken to the size of a
small dolls head, though stiIl retaining
| its human aspect, so that the effect pro-
| duced Is very weird and uncanny. Lastly,
/ the head Is decorated with brilliant feath-
ers, and the lips are fastened together
with a string by which the head is sus-
| pended from the rafters of the council
/ house.
The women of some Australian tribes
preserve the hands of defunct relatives
/ or friends as souvenirs. They also utilize
the skulls of their dead for drinking yes
| sells. Thus a daughter will use the skull
| of her mother as goblet. One of the most
! extraordinary of the laws among Austria
liam natives is that a widow, for every nus
| band she marries after the first is OBLIGED
to cut off joint of her finger. which She
presents to her spouse on the wedding dav.
| The Sandwich Islanders used to keen
| the 1aWbOnes of their enemies as trophies
! King Tamaahmaah had a ''spitbox which
| was set around with human teeth" It is
| said that desperate gamblers in Cevlon
| often play away the ends of their fingers
Necklaces of human fingers are owned and
regarded as extremely valuable fetiches
! by warrior chiefs of the Sioux and Chew
ennes. one such necklace formerly the
property of High Wolf, a Cheyenne chief
is now owned by the national museum n
| represents eight lives