Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-07-04

Tho Strange Mixture Of Races Found IN
New Hebrides.

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The Strange Mixture Of Races Found IN
New Hebrides.
In Southwest Bay alone have seen
writes Beatrice Grimschaw in the }
Windsor Magazine, describing the PEG.
pie of the New Hebrides, distinctly
Jewish types of face. types suggesting
the west African negro, types like an
extremely deprayed monkey and types
lie nothing else on earth but them
selves There are in the bay three
distinct languages, no one Of which
can be understood by the speakers of
another, and in the rest Of the island
there are at least seven OF eight other
languages.
The houses are of very low and
degraded type, being merely roofs set
on q bamboo stockade a couple Of feet
high, but the haInals, or sacred houses,
of which each village owns one, are
high, pointed, gabled buildings with
tiers OF windows in the gable and
1 lofty, narrow doors, apparently meant
for the admission of very high proved
canoes, which the New Hebrideans do
not possess. There are certain Jewish
rites in use among them. They have
caste regulations suggestive of India.
and they make mun1mies not very in
ferior to those Of Egypt; also, they are
cannibaIs, and they sing Gregorian
chant or its first cousin in their devil
dances. They worship the man-of-War
! hawk, which holds an extraordinarily
4 high place in their regilious beliefs.
They set an almost sacred value on
pigs, and the real object of their idols
or images. which are hideous, no man
\ knows. ss =
The existence of mummies has, be-
neVe, been questioned This is small
wonder, since they are always kept In
the hanlals OF. temples of the heather
eannibal villages and strangers are not
encouraged to NEEDLE. I had much
difficulty in seeing one myself, as the
temples are most strictly barred to
women. A native woman would be
instantly killed If she SO much as put
" her head inside, and do not think it
probable that a white woman would
escape either IL she were caught doing
1T. was, however, lucky enough in
another part OF Malekula to find tenn
pie unguarded save by few old WON
en- squatting outside, and, selling the
opportunity, entered.
IT was not a very good specimen, be
ing little better than shed, and 1t was
Is very dark inside. Further, thought 81
well not to stay very long. However
saw number of mummies, mounted
on carved stretchers and painted red
and blue, hanging up around the sup
porting parts of the roof; also good
many skulls placed on rough shelves
& their faces covered by a mask oi
fibrous stuff painted red, and some
curiousIy curved spears AIDES and kill
ing n1allets hung around the walls.
aot away again without being seer
and left that afternoon by the MONTH.
steamer, it being the last day Of nj,
stay In Malekula. heard afterward
s however, that iii feeling had beer
caused among the natives by my vic
lation Of their Bluebeard chamber.
1 On another occasion succeeded Il
seeing place into which no whit
person had ever ventured before, a for
esf cannibai fortress, six miles up Il
tie untraveled interior Ny host toll
me that IL went with him quite IN
armed and with only a couple Of boy
fp guide us and carry our dinners gu
+ ansigniaean would probably bring u