Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-01
Cauoasions Eat Too Many
Spices and Condiments for
Meat to Appeal to Fastidious
Taste Of African Natives.

(Associatcd Press Corrcspondoncc.)
Berlin. Sept 3o.-That caunibals
seldom eat white captiyes and then
without particular zest h che glst Of
a scientific report on the subject made
By Dr. Holman, formerly a consul %
Africa and an authority on the sub
iect Of tribal customs.
writing Of the recent murder Of
the Gorman-American mineraiosiai,
John Henry Warner, By natives Of
New Guinea. Dr. Holman asserts that
the abstcntiOn OF caunibais In Africa
and OF Guinea from the flesh " white
men Is not because they fear the spirit
~ the white victim or his powers OF
magic. as has sometimes been ASSUME
ed. but because they consider that H.
has an unpleasant taste due 20 tho use
OF sharp spices and condiments and
OF sailed dishes In the diet OF the
European.
Dr. Holman cites an article printed
several years ago in journal of Ll-
IBERIA. IN which it was said that the
cannlbals In the T.iberian territory eat
white man only when he has fallen
into their hands alive. Then the VIC
tim Is Immersed 10 the neck In a run
nine brook aud held thcrc Dy nunds
for two or three days, ON much the
same principle that an oyster 10
/ "noated" IN fresh water after being
taken from the beds. Dr. Hoffman
mas confirmation Of this from a for
MGR cannlDal
The reported killing and eating Of
Mr.. Warner. la PapuD. by the natives,
has called attention 20 the fact that
cannibalism Is by no means stamped
out In New Guinea. Warner believed
that radium could be found Ia Papu1
and fell a victim 90 his own zeal. it
| Is reported that his two native COM
panions escaped his horrible fate. the
news OF which they brought TO the
coast
AZ one time Official circles believed
that canniballsm was a thing OF the
past in British New Guinea. bat clear
evidence that il has persisted into tho
present decade has been provided by
unImpeacha1ie witnesses la book
4 published last year, j. n. =. Murray,
lieutenant governor and chief Judicial
officer Of Papua, has much 60 say
about tho practice OF .cnnqitulisin
among tho natives in the Island He
writes about boiling springs which not
many years ago were made use Of Eos
cooking any prisoners captured In the
village warfare.
Describing the northeastern division
OF the island, Murray quotes a native
witness, who. telling Of the eating of
human bodies. said: ''Wc boil them
we cut them up and boil them In a
pot. We boil babies, too; We cut them
up Ike a pig. we ont them cold %
hot: wo eat tire legs hrst. We cal
them because they are like fish. W.
have fish in the creeks and i.angaroo'
Ia the grass-but men are our real
food"
Murray tells Of the remark Of q
Ferguson Islander 60 stranger wh,
wanted TO buy betel nuts from him
why should / sell you betel nut,
am going 90 eat you Which hs
promptly ala. He also writes OF q
Grew Of shipwrcckod Chinese, VIII,
; were eaten one hy one. until the cap
tors, surfeited with the diet. peddiot
those who were left around the coas
selling them 20 the highest bidders
Wives. who ventured 10 look arount
during the funerals of their husband
were killed and eaten. one native
who was concerned in the killing OF
neighbOring chief and his two wive
told OF the subsequent eating OF th'
victims with the utmost unconccrn.
| lie told of eaiinu the hand of ON