The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
CAMERA men LIVE
MONTHS AS CANNIBALS
TWO AMERICANS FIRST WHITES
TO VISIT HEADQUARTERS AND
BRING BACK PICTURES.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-To have pene-
trated alone into the gloomy depths OF
the jungles of Borneo and New
Guinea. from whence no other white
men have ever returned alive, to have
lived with head-hunters and cannlbals
with only a camera as a weapon ana
TO have obtained reels of moving pic
lures of the fierce natives-these were
the experiences of Edward Laemmle
and W. L. Alder, motion picture pho
tographrs, who recently arrived IN
New York and told their story.
The pictures they show and the ad-
ventures they relate are filled with
the lure of savage scenery and WIG,
untamed people who had, many OF
them, never before seen a white man
unless in the pot about to be steWed
for the evening meal.
They fought with the natives IN bat
ties in South China, they were at
tackled and knocked over by a charg-
ing tiger in the wilds of Siam, they
were lost in the jungle with herd OF
elephants trumpeting near by, they
were ship-wrecked on the coast OF
New Guinea among cannibas-yet the
two young men call it the greatest
year of their lives.
Stirring Adventures.
Laemmle and Alder sailed from San
Francisco more than year ago, They
landed in Japan and filmed the noun
tains there. Java and its volcanoes
next was offered to their cameras.
Then they spent some time in China.
1t was in Borneo and New Guinea,
however, that their most stirring ad-
ventures came.
1.-THE head-hunters live in the very
central part of Borneo," says Laem-
nile. "The hardest part of it all is
finding them. 1t was wild trip. We
went up a small river during the rainy
season, huge crocodiles swapping their
immense jaws at us all the way. We
were always covered with leeches.
when we finally reached the Dy-
axis or head-hunters we were in a
country in which no other white men
had ever set foot. The head-hunters
may have looked longing at our heads,
but we didn't mind and started right
in photographing them. While we
were with them we lived just as they
did.
Dance About Human Heads.
MANY of the most common utensils
of the Dyaks are decorated with tufts
of human hair. Some of their dances
are twined about a dried human
head"
After having returned back to the
coast safely from the interior of Bor-
neo the two intrepid photographers
again fiirted with fate by organizing
an expedition to the cannibals of New
Guinea.
eve had a little, two-mast schoon-
err" says Laemmle, with a Malay
skipper and a Malay crew. The skip
per trusted to a bottle of whisky to
get US to our destination, so it's little
wonder that we were shipwrecked.
Fortunately we were near enough to
shore to get to land successfully.
ave were met by huge savages,
most Of them more than six feet tall,
pI dIGlCdlIy IldhSu Will lNOly CuoAo IO4A
through their noses, and faces made
hideous by scars. We managed to
pacify them by explanations and gifts
and established ourselves in a hut on
the shore.
Glad They Were Thin.
Lord, how glad we were that we
were thin! Only short time before
they had stewed up a missionary
whose empty church we later photo
graphed. They explained that on the
whole they preferred the meat of Chi
namen to that of white men, so that
cheered us up a little.
eve were two months among this
strange and revolving race. Several
times we were in the greatest danger
of our lives, but always managed to
pull out with a whole skin"
After Laemmle and Alder returned
the Dutch government complimented
them on their initiative as beng the
first white men ever to brave the in
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