The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-29
CANN|bALS Still
EAT HUMANB0D|ES
Travellers Find That South
Sea Islanders Have the
Same old Appetite

Berlin, Sept. 28.-That cannibals
seldom eat white captives and then
without particular zest is the sist Of
a scientific report on the subject made
by DIR. Hoffman, formerly a consul
in Africa and an authority on the SUBJ
ject Of tribal customs.
Writing of the recent murder of the
German American minearlogist, John
Henry Warner. by natives of New
Guinea, DIR. Hoffman asserts that. the
Iabstention of cannibals in Africa and
OF Guinea from the flesh Of white men
Is not a they. fear the spirit Of
the white victim or his powers of mag
ic. as. has sometimes been assumed,
but because they consider that it has
an unpleasant taste due to the use of
sharp spices and condiments and of
sailed dishes In the diet Of the Eu-
ropean.
DR.. Hoffman cites an article printed
several years ago in a journal Of Lii
IBERIA, in which 1t was said that the
cannibals in the Liberian territory eat
q white man only when he has fallen
into their hands alive. Then the VIC
tim Ia immersed to the neck in a run
ming brook and held there by ponds
Tor W. or three days, on much the
same principle that an oyster is "float-
ed" in fresh water after being taken
from the beds. DR.. Hoffman had o
nibal.
The reported killing and eating Of
Mr.. Warner, in Papua, by the natives
has called. attention to the fact that
canniba}ism is by no means stamped
out in New Guinea. Warner believed
that radium could be found in Papua
and fell a victim to his own zeal. 1t
is reported that his w native COM
panions escaped his horrible fate, the
news of which they brought to the
coast. ,- -.
At one time official circles believed
that c%annibalism was a thing of the
past in British New Guinea, but clear
evidence that it has persisted into the
present decade has been provided by
unimpeachable witnesses. In a book
published last year, ]. H. p. Murray.
officer OF Papua, has much to say
about the practice Of cannibalism
among the natives in the island. He
writes about boiling springs which not
many years ago we're made use Of for
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
OO~ASo oaANs WV OSti SbaCuAs
we cut them up and boil them III a
pot. We boil babies, too; we cut them
up like a pig. We cat them cold or
hot; We a the legs first. We eat them
because they are like fish. We have
fish. in the creeks and kangaroos in
the grass-but men are our real food"
Murray tells of the remark of q Fer
wanted to buy betel nuts from him:
"WhN should I sell you betel nut; ! am
going to eat you." Which he prompt
~ did. He also writes of a crew Of
shipwrecked Chinese, who were eaten
one by one. until the captors, surfcited
with the diet. peddled those who were
left around the o selling them to
the highest bidders. Wives, who ven
tured to look around during the flu
nerals Of their husbands we're killed
and eaten. One native who was con
cerned in the killing of a neighboring
chief and his two wives told of the
subsequent eating of the victims with
the utmost unconcern.
He told of eating the hand Of one
wife. but refused to touch the. other,
as he had killed her. and il was not
the custom of his tribe to eat ones
own victim. The two women were
singed first, then cut into small pieces.
mixed with sage. cooked. wrapped up
in leaves. and distributed to the vic
tors, including their women and chill
dren.
Lieutenant General Kuno von Steu.
ben is the new 'schooln1aster' Of the
German war college, to which the best
sent soon after receiving their COM
mission. Americans will recall with
interest that other Won Steuben of the
same family. he of the testy temper
and indomitable perseverance. who or
ganized and drilled George Washing
tons unframed recruits into tirst-class
fighting material.
ben has been assigned was too onerous
for his predecessor. General von Guen-
dell. who retired after less than six
months service. A detail to the war
academy is an Indispensable prelimin-
airy to service. with the general staff,
from which the officers for higher
commands are selected. and General
Won Steuben possibly has in his hands
the military training of a future COM
war.
A German medical journal reports
the curious case of a child BORN with
out a brain, which in spite of this
handicap. lived to the age Of almost
four years. At the autopsy it was
found that both the cerebrum and
cerebellum, the so-called big and
little" brain. were completely lack
ing, only the medulla %oblongata being
present. This little knot Of brain it's
sue at the base Of the main brain.
which in fishes forms the sole brain,
was able here to control the functions
Of the body necessary to a bare ex-
istence. but nothing more. The child
lay In a state of coma. with contracted
arms and almost m%otionless. during its
whole existence. 1t was Impossible to
obtain the slightest mental reaction.
I. mo GOD-NO POPE" +.
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