The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-10-08
Scientists From Oxford University to
Spend Year in South Seas Study
irs Habits Of Natives Who Dine
On Human Flesh.
OTHER EXPLORERS
HAVE NOT RETURNED.
Enslishmcn Are Willing to Risk
Their Lives in an Endeavor to In
wade Interior of the Home of the
Maui Eaters.

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London, Oct n An expedition
has set out from oxford University
with ats objective IA cannihal isle in
the South Seas, whore it expects to
sped a year in studying the habits
Sof the natives
The party Of scientists IL headed
b. David Jenness, the anthropolo-
gical expert Of Balliol College The
csplerors wiz l3cato on GoodenoNah
Island. which y situated in the ex-
treme southcastFriy corner of BRIT
isl New Guinea Iiittle Is known Of
The interior o. this island, but II has
been asserted that caanibaIism Isl
practited there on an extensive
scale
Occasionally government Official
PAYS a visit TO the isle, but, being
unwilling TO provide the natives
With q banquet. wisely continues his
tigat'oas to the coast line For
this reason The interior remains I'M
explored. One or 40 attempts have
been made TO map the inland. but the
explorers have neyer returned
Goodcpough island, which is of
volcanic formation is believed to
ho the highest island OF its size In
the world II is forty miles long and
thirty miles across and its highest
mountain extends 5000 feet above
sea level
Another American invasion IL now
stirring England The Kent and
Essex Sea Fisheries Commission re-
ports that the American limpct is
threatening the oyster industry.
Az expert of the Board of Agricul-
ture states that on the southeast
coast 4 limpet of species hitherto
unknown to British waters has APP
pesrcd, aud he declares that the in
yader must have been imported from
America. whore it lourishes in and
near oyster beds
As American oyster growers have
no dread Of the limpet, the expert
was asked why il was feared here.
He explained that for the short time
i has been here the limpet has
spread with extraordinary rapidity,
and there has been slight decrease
in oysters r. has therefore been
suggested that in its new environ
mcnt the lmpet uses the same food
as the oyster and SO starves that BIZ
valve The possibility OF the lin
pct smotherins young oysters by its
cIipging habits is also suggested
But aside from the danger to the
oyster from the invasion OF the lin
pet, scientists are Interested in the
phenomena, because shell fish as a
rule are not all migratory Natural
causes have fixed The habitat OF
each. Il is believed that the iimpet
was brought here by the oyster pro-
prictors, who imported new varie-
ties Of American oysters, and con
Germ Is now felt that the least valu-
able will survive the struggle for
existence, It is believed that the
limpets came over in the form Of
spawn. as no one would deliberately
plant them with oysters The agi-
tatiou against the limpct may result
in restrictions on the importation OF
American oysters for planting
Among the exhibits for the new
London Museum classified last
mouth were the historical costume
collection which almost fell into the
hand" OF the Metropolitan Museum
Of New York. This magnificent en-
hibit has for its nucleus the splendid
Seymour Lucas collection for which
the authorities Of the American in
stitution had been negotiating The
series comprises three or four hum
dred costumes dating from the four
teenth century TO The present day.
Among the costumes are the coro-
patiou robes of five socereigns:
Queen Victoria Queen Alexander.
Queen Mary, King Edward VII ana
George v The Elizabethan aud Ja-
cohean periods are marked by some
EXQUISITE costumes aud the Common
wealth II recalled by number Of
beautiful 4lyer-embroidered leather
coats.
The classifying Is being done by
Guy t,aking, the Kings Armonrer at
KeasingtoD Palace, in the room in
which Queen Anne died. II is said
that the Queen died Of smallpox,
and the cassifiers are hoping that
all the germs have died of old age.
The center piece Of the new museum,
which was the idea Of King George
and for which he has granted the