New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-08
METHODIST MISSIONARY
FINDS A NEW RACE
"Ki-Kis" Live Thousands of
Feet Above Sea and Are
CannibaIS' Prey.
TREE BARK W0MEN'S GARB
DR.. G. v. Hall Gives Warning to
Those Who Would Pene.
trate Interior of
New Guinea.

Or. G. V. Hall, Methodist missionary,
who has Just returned from New Guinea
told yesterday Of his discovery in that
land OF a new race the name of which
he gave as XXX. DR.. Hall was seen at
the rooms Of the Methodist Board of For
eign Missions, at No. $50 Fifth avenue
He has for the last five years been on a
trip around the world. He left New
Guinea early in May.
The new race, he declared, lived several
thousand feet above the sea level, about
FIVE days journey inland from Manorki
and subsisted on roots and fruit. The
women Of the race dress in tree bark. and
the protective quality OF the color Of
their garments makes It almost impossible
to distinguish them in the deep forests.
The men wear small ornaments about
their shoulders The tribe is not war
like. and is the prey OF the more ferocous
Manork tribesmen. who are cannbals.
II went into the region with the son OF
the Dutch Governor" said DR.. Hall. 1T
would have been impossible otherwise TO
have made such an excursion. for the
government will not consent to explora-
non. we were dlNblIlIdIIltl ny llp'f''
Cannibalism in the interior Of New GUM
ca is rampant to-day. Any white man
who ventures there does so at his peril y
The new race was found after five days
march Through a native boy accom-
panying the party It was possible 10
learn something Of their beliefs.
"They considered the white man a
supernatural being" said DR.. Hall. They
thought he came up out Of the sea. An
other thing that strengthened their be-
lief that he was supernatural was the
tendency. when dead. Of the Ki-Kis TO
turn pale, thus becoming like the white
man."
DR.. Hall was present when the troops
took the heads Of fourteen natives from
head hunters. He presented one OF the
skulls TO a museum In Jamaica and has
one with him.
IF any man has an idea that he can
penetrate the interior OF New Guinea
without any danger Of being eaten, let
him try it," was his emphatic statement.
THE Dutch government suppresses tha
facts about the grewsome work OF the
natives. l saw one man whose dress was
made entirely OF human hair. the former
possessors OF which he had at different
times eaten"
DR.. Hall has travelled much in the
Philippine Islands. He said he thought
the United States would make a grave
mistake II it gave the FilipLnos their In
dependence now. for they are not. in his
opinion. at the present time prepared for
II.
"Of all the peoples / have een IN the
East the Hindus are the only ones who
should have self-government." he added
The Filipinos have not arrived at the
point where they should have such a re-
sponsibility."
-Four months in all were devoted to work
in New Guinea. Or. Hall. when no start
ed on his trip. did so as representative
OF the Methodist Board OF Jamaica. His
home is in California. but for the present
he will make his headquarters in Chicago.
He brought back photographs OF some OF
the XXI women and men. He also got
a picture OF cannibal just after the
latter had partaken Of a human meal.