The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-10-20
CANNABALS IN DESERT.
A Few of Them Still Left in Aus.
tralia.

If you have a mind to visit Aus
tralia it might be just as we'll to
keep away from the centre of the
continent, according to D. C. Came
ron, Scotchman who has lived out
there for twenty years and who is
) now at the Imperial. Especially
would Mr.. Cameron be disposed to
recommend that you refrain from
travelling alone. Why? Cannibals.
Not that many visitors to Austria
liza are tempted to penetrate the
centre of the country. Everybody
says it's a vast unexplored region,
a desert. But sometimes a man goes
out prospecting and is never heard of
again, and then down to civilization
come tales of how the bones of what
had apparently been white man had
been found bleaching about the re-
mains of a camp fire, and then bit by
bit the fact comes out that the soli-
tary seeker for gold had fallen into
the hands of some of the first families
of the country and made contribu-
ton to the aboriginal table d'hote.
1t wasn't to tell about this that
Mr.. Cameron came to New York.
He is sober, practical business man,
and he is in the United States to see
how milk is manufactured here. Not
the calcerous beverage by treatment
of disaphanizomenated aqua crotona
that used to find a ready market
here before some New Workers had
heard about COWS, but powdered milk.
They are going to start a new manu-
featuring industry in Australia and
Mr.. Cameron is the general manager
of the company and he is travelling to
get points.
''Our factory is being built at
place about 125 miles from Mel
bourne" said Mr. Cameron yesterday.
'Within a radius of four miles of it
there are yielded every M rning from
10000 to 10000 pounds of milk.
That of course, is a great cattle coun-
try; and there are lot of butter fac
tories. OF course great part of the
milk produced is consumed by the
butter factories; in the spring the
supply is such that the waste cannot
be consumed by the calves and pigs
in the neighborhood, to which 1t is
fed. We are building plant to cost
$4,000 and an English engineer is
installing machinery. I have been
visiting factories in Canada and Sy-
racuse and am now going over to
England to study the process there.
We shall begin on small scale, but
we expect the far east to furnish a
great market.
"Big holdings of land in Victoria
are rapidly going out, the big es-
tates being rapidly divided into
smaller properties and sold off. Just
a month before I left an estate Of
Z $4,000 acres was divided up and
s sold and a great deal Of it realized
$4OO an acre. This was not for city
lots, mind you, or orchard land, but
for what had been dairy land for
some years. A curious thing about
the sale was that the people who
bought were all residents Of the dis
trict.
s'What we call the bush is not so
far from Melbourne on one side" !"
said Mr.. Cameron in answer to ques-
3 iton. 'In fact, it lies only about 80
miles to the west. The aboriginal in
habitants are very few now and most
of them are kept in colonies by the
government, corresponding somewhat
to your Indian reservations. In parts
of Western Australia, should say
near the centre of the continent, the
blacks are savages, and like their bit
of human flesh at times. They are
not fighting lot and l don't believe
they kill and eat one another to any
extent, but an occasional prospector
gets in among them and realizes his
mistake too late.
.'They are very fond of Cinnamon
too, and if celestial gets up among
them they are apt to literally devour
him. There used to be lot more OF
Chinese disappearing by this means
some years ago than is the case now,
because our immigration laws pro-
hibit them from coming into Austria
liza, and those that were already in
the country have grown cautious
about leaving the thickly settled parts
of the country. The aborigines have
acquired many of the evils and ap-
parently none of the virtues of civili-
zation."
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