The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-24
One Prisoner Buried Alive, Ex-
humed, Cooked and Eaten.
FLOOD And PLh6U6 RAGE
Steamer Brings News from New Heb
rides and Australia = Earthquakes
Cause Waves Which Drown MUny
Motives.

VICTORIA, B. c., April II
The steamer Moana, which
reached port yesterday from
Sidney via the South Sea ports
of call, brought details of tribal
wars, cannibalism, earthquakes,
tidal waves, plague and other af-
fairs in the South Seas. The
steamer Mambaro. had just re-
turned to Sidney, from the New
Hebrides, just prior to the de-
parture of the Moana, and accord
ing to the report furnished by
her pursuer, the steamers com.
pany found on their arrival at
Tanna that big cannibalistlc
feat was being held oy olIe ma
tives.
The natives had secured num-
Der of prisoners in raid on the
villages of their enemies and
when the steamer reached port,
some distance from the native
village, thew were eating some OF
the unfortunates who had been
captured or killed in the tribal
engagement.
Some of the prisoners were
brought to the fire alive, and af-
ter they had seen some OF their
unfortunate fellow beings roasted
for the feast they were slaugh-
tered before the assembled COM
pany. During the feast one of
the natives who had been buried
alive and had been beneath the
ground for twelve days was ex-
humed and cooked and eaten
with the rest. The passengers
and officers of the inter-island
steamer did not 60 to the scene
of the cannlbal feast, which was
still in progress wnen they left.
The Rev. F. L. H. Patton, the
venerable missionary, who has
been in the New Hebrides for
nearly half century, and who
visited the United States about
two years ago, had a narrow es-
cape from being killed during one
of the forays of the fighting
tribes. There was a big fight at
the village near Tanna, which
was attacked, and in a battle
which took place in the bush near
the village, both tribes fighting
with knives and spears, fifty
one natives were left on the field
dead and a large number were
wounded, many being carried off
by both parties for the feast.
The Rev. Mr.. Patton went to the
scene and visited the field where
the two tribes were fighting, and
engaged in the work of attending
to the wounded at the risk of his
life. He was bending over two
wounded natives, one of them a
woman, when several spears were
hurled at him by some of the at
lacking tribe. but fortunately
none struck him. He then left
the field and took refuge at Tan
ma.
Severe earthquake shocks,
which caused high tidal waves,
are reported to have caused much
loss of life in the New Hebrides
group. Missionaries reported
that the shocks had emptied their
bookcases and overturned furni.
ture, and that several houses had
been destroyed. A large number
of the huts of the natives we're
also destroyed, and when the IT,
dial wave came, following the
shocks, the water rose on some
OF the islands to a height of five
feet, swept away many huts, and
drowned many people. Planters
lost heavily.
Bubonic plague was still rag.
ing at Sydney when the steamer
left, and there were camT aigns
against the rats, brigades being
formed to clean up the city.
Within two weeks prior to the
sailing of the Moana, on March
%, there were fifty cases and
eighteen deaths, and at Brisbane
there were seven cases and one
death in the same time.
Shot IN Ms Leg.
For sores burns bruises. wounds. De