The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-06

BIS military trimming, his accuracy q shot
and his leonine courage soon won for him high
recognition, and he was made chief of police
on the Congo, with command of Hussns7 i'm
ported Arnbnn fighting men and blacks from
the Portuguese possessions noted for their
ago and sodierly qualities. For several years
he ruled with iron hand, then resigned to
seek other adventures.
Tho young American whom D'Altomontc md
his party rescued from the cannibals Is John
Harris Walton, stin living in San Pnolo di
Lonndo serving manager of the Hotton &
Cookson Company concessions
ey Baron Antonio Benedetu D'Altononte
tights rcscrycdl
IT, HE affair mn about to detail occurred In
the middle of February 1903. and since It
deals with cannibalS and there Is quite
bit Of dispute among armchair authorities on
the state of African cannbalism IT seems wise
TO me TO relate few Of the facts concerning man.
eating. as have observed It.
My first experience with cannibals cumc soon after
my taking up eonstabulary work l had left Bona
n tribal paciGcatory mission weeks before
md with a company of twenty native policemen and
sixty portcrs. making overland journey be
tween two of the upper tributaries
One Of my porers had cut his foot on some sharp
bit OF something and in his efforts to carry his load
and keep pace with the others had got himself into
dreadful state before aware that he was In
cnpacItated When knew 1t | at once dctnied two
help him II he got badly of thnt he could not
travel they Instructed TO remain with him in
camp until he could follow after We had planned
10 camp for some days soon reached watcr.
The second day thereafter noticed the I had
detailed In their places but the cripple wns not to be
seen
"Where is UnshanaT l nsked
"oh. MASTER his Illness overcame him last evening
and he died We buried him by the dry river and
came on" the
Some weeks later report reached me from head
quarters In which missionary charged that he had
found evidence of men attached TO my party having
killed and eaton one of their number. |
sent for the two L had detailed to for the
with tho hurt foot told them that the devils had
told me the whole story. In fact reconstructed the
picture very viydly for the precious pair ending by
demanding why they had killed and eaten their
rade, Unsbana.
-IIc could more and could not carry him.
Only his leg bad, and why should much good
meat 20 to wnsteT'
The punishment for cannbnlism being death had
the two OF them shot at once
The Captive Americans.
in command OF a small party in the month
OF the year which l have mentioned and we were
encHmped on well protected Island OF the great
river when heard shouts from the north bank and
saw three white men. in of whom recognized
very famous character of the Congo. He had ap-
pcared about ten years before without telling any one
Of his previous life the OF his hiding away In
the jungle and had entered the life OF hunter
and trader. spending all of his time with the blacks
He known among white Memo and among
the blacks as Undee. The two men with him did
not know. Sending my pirogue with It's of
rowerS / soon had them In camp
did not speak English at that time, but Undele
very quickly told the story in the native tongue
TIc hu1 IL
and third friend As nearly ] remember the
details the third man, John Harris Walton by
blacks and had doubtless been killed and perhaps
eaten The natives employed by the party had ned,
leaving Undee and the two other Americans 10 make
their way down river to civilization best they
could The affair had happened only few hours
before and 1t sheer good fortune that they had
encountered my police party.
As nearly Cndcc and | could determine. tho at
tock on Walton had been made by detachment from
the vagront tribe OF n chief named Ugnodo Sumbah
who wandered here and there with about hun
dred followers nil that left to him Of a large
force which had nearly wiped ont five years be-
fore. Walton had been distance from camp
when IL happened and when the camp blacks deserted
had been plain that pursuit without stronger force
wns useless In that remote section Ugnodo and bis
men would not trouble TO travel far with their pris
oncrs aud the stores they had stolen and If we were
careful might steal up them that night and
punish them.
AS quickly / could organize a guard for my
camp and detail punitive force to the piroguc we
set off, The twenty placed just before
sunset at the spot where the attack had occurred,
There found several OF the blacks who had de-
serted. They had back after their panic and
were in very Respondent hopeless state waiting In
camp for something 10 happen. They agreed
thnt the raiders the men OF Ugnodo Sumbah and
that the party Of twenty more had recrossed the
river and gone up OF the tributaries According
10 their reports the raiders able warriors and
well armed
1t desperate chance to take. but decided to
in pursuit aud practically yielded the con-
mand 10 Undee. whose familiarity With the natives
and With every little bit OF Africun woodcran made
him man to be respected 10 II hunt like this.
Rowing way in the pirogue WAS made absolutely
clear that the big fellows could get full, long
stroke. Squatted the bow uudele In his
jungle hunting suit. great soft bat crowded
down over his aud his black beard flowing back
over his shoulders the pIrosuo shot into the wind