The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-17
BLACK MEN COOK
THEIR CAPTIVE.
Tale of CannibaliSm Brought by
the Steamship Moaha.
TRIALS OF MISSIONARY
CoUNsELS PEACE TO NATIVES
WHILE THEY FIGHT.

VICTORIA, B. C.. April 16-The
Y steamer Moana of the Canadian
Australian line, which arrived this
morning from sydney, New Zealand
and Honolulu, brought upwards of 200
passengers, many Of them distin-
guished Australians on their way to
London to attend the coronation cere-
monies. The other two liners of the
line viii be crowded with passengers
also bound to London, when they ar
rive next month. The steamers booked
to San Francisco are also carrying
many passengers.
The surgeon of the Moana reports
that in Sydney there were eighteen
deaths from bubonic plague during the
TWO weeks prior to March %, and that
III the same time there had been one
death from the same disease in Bris-
bane- The authorities are doing all
they can TO stamp it out. The disease
has entirely disappeared at Suva and
honolulu. There recently reached
sydney three sailors from the san
Francisco whaler Gayhead, who, since
they left their home port in December,
have undergone some privations. The
names of the men are Miller, Morgan
and Nichols.
In a Fearful Storm.
The story told is to the effect that
they shipped on board the Gayhead at
san Francisco on Dec. 13 The Gay
head got along to japanese waters,
when the three men named left because
the remainder of the crew were colored
men, and they, being the only whites
on board, did not seem TO agree with
their cOlored colleagues. It was at Pa
nope where they parted company, and
after that they were four days without
food. At the end of this time they were
picked up by a japanese governor. who
handed them over to some of his Off
Gals. They were well treated and sub
sequently placed on board a German
man Of war, which conveyed them to
New Britain. Here they Joined the
steamer Paaknam and were taken TO
sydney. The American consul attended
to their wants
latham witnessed an unusual sight
during an electrical storm of New Yea
land. The sky. which was a mass Of
inky -colored clouds, presented an al
most appalling appearance at times
when the forked lightning with terrific
suddenness made lurid rents in it, some
OF the cuts stretching from the horizon
10 the zenith The vessel appeared to
be in the centre of a magnificent cleo
trlcal panorama, the impressiveness OF
which was accentuated by an almost
unbroken roar of thunder.
In the height of the meteorological
display several enormous waterspouts
went whirling across the ocean.
Ate Their Captives.
Australian papers say that the story
publishehd in American papers under
Paris date Of Feb. 16, respecting a mas
sacre of a French party Of scientists IN
New Guinea, is news to the residents of
the southern colony, no report of SUCK.
a massacre having been received there.
The steamer Mambare recently re-
turned to Sydney from the South Sea
Islands. Upon arriving at Tanra it
was reported that the natives were
holding big feast and were eating
several natives that had been CAPTURED
or killed during a tribal engagement.
One OF the natives. who had been un-
der ground for about twelve days, was
taken up and cooked and eaten with
the rest OF these tribal wars. the
purser mentioned that since his last
visit to Tanna there had been fifty-one
natives killed and several wounded.
Rey. r II. L. Patton. the missionary.
went on the battlefield to attend the
wounded at great risk of lis life. On
Santo and other islands the natives
seemed to be a little quieter.