The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-23
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The par'yinisn Theory 81 the Sur.
viyal q the Fitteyt see,, d rts
Most Pitiable Application Among
the African Man-Eatings Tribes.
Some FACTS That viii Surprise
Many People.
Man is still much eaten hv ia.
felloW men. Cannibalism In all fta
horror still persists In the upper Con.
go region and other portions OF ART
ca. The taste for human meat per-
sists In New Guinea and among cer-
tain groups of the South Sea Islands.
notably the %Solomons, the New He
n,aues ana New Ireland. David Liy-
insstone, the first white man Who
crossed the Manyemaa count ~
AFRICA, was reluctant to belieyestbat
cannlpalism was not In some way al
sociated with superstitious rites, Rmt
when he saw the eagerness viii
Whtch the natives devoured their
aVori foo he changed his mind
ana wrote hat "the Congo man sim
ply prefers lunar flesh to n other
- nieaI. another tribe is said
10 nave stated, 1T is good to eat
meaC tnat e Africa shows the
DarWln1an theory Of survival OF tho
ntest In Its most pitiable application
me SICK, crippled, aged, men and
women alike, are killed and eaten I'm
the cannfbalistic tribes. The flesh of
or war or men killed In bat
Tie le preferred above all <,thers
strangely enough all explorers renort
That the ~man-eating tribes are super-
ior, mentally and physically, to the
non c%annibals.
In the Bangala country not only
are the bodies of those slain In battle
eaten. but the natives habitalIv xiii
men for food. And about this thnrn
is much curious system, such as in
clines students Of anthropology to
suspect some hidden origin. Thus
the prisoner Is not killed outright
put is placed chin deep in a pool Of
water with his head made fast To q
log lest he drown. The victims
limbs. by the way, have been broken
three days previously. On the third
day the poor creature is taken out
and killed. This procedure, the fierce
bangala says, makes the flesh more
tender.
Capt. S. L. Hinde, returning homo
from Stanley Falls on the Congo, had
personal experience Of these people.
On the down river trip to Bona six
or the Bangala crew were put i'm irons
charged with having eaten two OF
their companions. The accused were
magnificent savages, over six feet
high and superbly proportioned. Two
or the crew, 1t seemed. had fallen i'll
on INC voyage up and we're allowed
by the captain to take a few days
rest. But when next rations were
served they were missing. The mas
ter OF the steamer was told lney had
died during the night and been bur-
led ashore. And this seemed likely
enough. But the captain of the ship
a his doubts. He made a sudden
raid on h quarters Of his Bangala
hands. and discovered parts Of the
missing men, smoke dried and cut up
conveniently in the lockers of the
six suspects, now going - trtai AZ
Leopoldville,
Commandant Guy Burrows, lately
In the service of the Congo admins
%tration, tells a curious story Of the
Batake people, a body OF whom he
led in a punitive expedition against
the Mabode tribes. AIS
81 saw a boy hit in the shoulder
by a ball from an old muzzlo Ioader,,'
he said, "and yet, although seriously
hurt, he looked entirely u~nconcerned;
they are utter fatalists, these fellows.
His comrades carried him to one side,
away from the rest of the wounded,
and when / saw this / Remarked.
Take that boy up or he'll get hit
again"
cat this half a dozen grave leaders
came to me eXpostulating. lie is only
a young lad they grumbled. You
might lust as well let us have him
for killing when the fight is over j
drove the monsters from me with my
chicotte or hippo hide whip. The
boy recovered n served me for
years. But those Batake cannibals
never forgave me-"
He who relies on another's table is
apt to dine late.-Italian.
The time Is never lost that is de-
votsd to work.--Emerson.