Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-13

In and said that would surely be killed if |
attempted to interfere A moment later
another man rushed in and said that the
woman had already been killed We went
out to the beach where the crowd of Indians
was. They were divided into two bands,
each led by brave who was stark naked.
All were bowling horribly They had killed
a woman and cut her in half and each of the
nude Indian leaders was carrying his half of
the woman in his teeth AS we came up the
bands separated and each gathered around
Its leader. They were SO crowded together
that could not see. They sat down in two
great punches on the sand. When they got
seen. What became of the flesh | do not
know, but | was told it was eaten, and that
all had engaged in the feast"
DO you mean to say that they ate the
flesh without cooking it?"
Eyes, they must have eaten it raw, for. as
| say, the woman disappeared They may
have buried the bones in the sand | doubt,
however, whether the flesh agreed with
them, for the officers of the Hudsons Bay
company fort nearby told me that it was the
custom of the Indians after every such can
nibal feast to come into the post the day fol-
lowing and buy large quantities of EPSON
salts"
you spoke of seeing boy killed, Father
Duncan"
mo, | did not see him killed The boy
died of consumption. His body was laid out
upon the beach and it was there eaten by
the people"
At another point in the conversation I
asked Dr. Duncan about some of the at
temps made to kill him He described
them most graphically, and as he talked
could see that he was again living over the
past He rose to his feet and acted the
story his eyes flashing and his arms waving
gestures. He told me how one of the chiefs
tried to close his school, being melted as
Father Duncan thought, by the officers of
the Hudsons Bay company, who wanted to
get rid OF him. In one such case a chief de-
manded that Father Duncan close the school
because his beautiful daughter was just
about to drop down from the moon to be
married. The chief said that she had gone
She would drop from the moon into the sea
and would rise out of the water with a bear
skin over her shoulders and thus appear to
the people At this time there would be
many ceremonies that would prevent the
school being held.
Said Father Duncan: II refused to stop
the school. The Indians threatened to kill
me, but kept the school open. Then they
begged me to give up the school just one
week prior to the young ady's drop from
the moon. | told them that she might fall
but that the school would go on They then
wanted me to stop for day, but refused
and would not compromise with their SUI
perstition. On the day before the event was
to occur two men came to kill me- They
had knives and they were about to jump
upon me when they saw my teacher an In
dian who has taught me the language, stand
ing behind me. The teacher had pistol
under his blanket and this bulged out in
such way that the Indians knew it and
realized that they would be shot if they
stabbed me. You see, the Indian never
works in the open If he shoots it is usually
through blanket conceaing his gun. Well
to make a long story short they gave up
their design and afterward one of them
came back and tried to proye,to me that he
was good man."
1t was from such material as this that Dr.
Duncan created the civilized community OF
the Metlakahtla of the present. The COM
munity has its own preachers and its own
public speakers. Some of the sermons, in
the Tsimpsean language are full OF elo-