The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-21

bed of cannibalism. 1t was headed
by the Rev James Chalmers. the
noted explorer and veteran mis-
sonary and DIR. Oliver Fellows
Tompkins, of the London Mission
airy Society. Two other young white
men, James Walker and Thomas
Rathbone, accompanied them to-
gether with eleven native converts.
They set out from Thursday Island
In a little schooner, the Niue, own
cd by the society. A week later
they dropped anchor off the coast
of Coaribatta. and few hours
afterward several native canoes
filled with savaIges came out to
greet the missionary party. The
chief of the island welcomed them
all and assured them that they
would be safe with his tribe.
Presents were exchanged and the
entire party went ashore next
day Suddenly they found them
selves surrounded by 800 warriors
armed with clubs and knives. DR..
Chalmersh saw there was no hope
and in their own tongue addressed
the cannibals begging them to give
up their practice and worship the
true God. In the midst of his ad-
dress he was dubbed to death, DR..
Tompkins being compelled to wit
ness 1t. Next morning he and the
two other young men were put to
death and in the evening the elev-
on native converts were massacred,
The bodies were cut up, the flesh
sorted in baskets and distributed
AMONG the villages. where there
we're feasts that lasted several
days-and this in the twentieth
century.
There was a famous feast of hu
man flesh only two years ago in
the New Hebrides, on the Island
of Tanna. There had been big
battle and one village had been
victor, taking hundreds of prison.
.ers and eating every one. The
feast was going on amidst the
widest orgies when the steamship
Mambare touched there. The pas
sengers did not visit the scene of
the feast, but got away as quickly
as they could.
only two years ago a party OF
French soldiers was ambuShcd,
slain and eaten in Nigeria, in West
Africa. Tales of cannibalism along
the Congo used to be 80 common
as TO excite little comment in the
more civilized settlements along the
coast but the Belgian Administra-
ton has almost stamped it out.
Father Allaire, missionary apos-
tolic, to the French Congo, has had
several narrow escapes from being
eaten by the cannibals that swarm
along the river. His home station
at Lirango TO this day is surround
ed by Cannibal tribes, and more
than once he has discerned his
neighbors hankering after his own
flesh. Some of them have offered
him a tidblt cut from thelrbBlaln
enemies
"Iou should taste 1t. and you'd
never turn away" said one. ..See
that head? You know him well.
We ate him three days ago; he
was fine
There cannabalis:u Is passion
among the natives who will eat
nothing except the flesh of young
boys and girls. Once Father Allaire
made dangerous trip far up the
river and soon was surrounded by
natives.
"Sell us children" they clamor-
cd We need them to eat'.'
lie barely escaped with his life
when the savages found that ho
had no children to sell.
II, +. Morley of the Insular
Bureau, has reported at Washing
ton that cose to our own doors
in the wilds of Hayti, there are
cannibalistic feasts, where babies
are eaten. And just south of us,
in the Gulf of California, is tt
buron Island, where cannibals live
to this day. White men have been
able to land there and get away
but not one of those who have
yentured inland has ever returned