The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEATH OF A SLAVE-IRADING CHIEF.  A CANNIBAL FEAST.  In the first number of the Ayr:few Am.. &quarterly je.urnal printed at the Universites' Mission hese Likema, on Lake Nyassa, tome further iiloi ore given of the death of the Tao slave-trading coief Makinjira or Makanjila, who was the must powerful enemy of the British Aemieistration in Central Africa, and the news of whose murder by .Cs son was recently published in the Times in ietter from a correspondent in Nyassaland. The „„yvassa News states: nalakanjda is dead. There remains no doubt about the fact, and we our, Ives hive seen his grave. Miserable hes been his end, and pitiful and ghastly is the tale thereof. lle has died, as so many Van chiefs in this country do die, by the hand of an asses in, though, as it would seem, in just retritution for his crimes. Here are the facts as we have ri cenily learned them from many mouths, on the east coast of the iake, at no great distance trim this town. Makanjila, for no appals nt reason, slew a certain marl of note named Makwieja. This caused his people to rebel, and Kuluunda, the moth, rof the termer Makanjila, plotted his death in retaliatien tor ten murder. It was arranged that Makanjila sheuld be enticed from the house by guile ad then shot. Accordingly the son of the late Makanjila, a man named Msosa, gave out that be .was about to go into the for-at to hunt game. Stter a few days he returned and sent word to alakanjila Your son has returned and desire to salute his father.' This brough! Mekanjila from his hou.se and no sooner bad he cr s•ed his f,scri threshold than Msosa shot him. Makanjila fell, And Msosa rushed open him with iliB knife and cut his throat Another, and a more sinister story, if not certainly, yet possibly, true, especialls if the charaoter of the man be taken into consiiiere, Ili. attaches itself to the death of Makarijila, •se purporting to give the cause, in part, at lewd, o, tie. essassmation It is said that when Makanjila killel Makwinja lie kept the latter's corpse in his own honor, saying lie would bury it himself. Clien he rrepared a great feast; and, slaying three xen, caused their flesh to be cooked together with :hat nt his victim, Makwinja. Along with this gruesome odiwo 'he ied op umoet,,ius Le. :ice and then called his guests. Slaves, freed men. 'east men, Mohammedans .11 came, and they Ste and gorgrd themselves, all unauspecti g, it us said, the nature of the Thyestean banquet of which they were partaking. When they had eaten repletion and no more remained on the dishes. said Makanjila to his people, • Come, you Waislaniti, I thought it was your boast that you never would touch human flesh; isle, then have eu eaten Makwinja to-day ? ' Foithwith an uproar ensued, and loud expressions of horror and disgust losite from the assembled guests. From that 4, forward it was resolved that Makanjila .hold die."  A cormorant is now making a regular resting. rgace of the weathercock on the spire of Newark pariah church, situated in the middle of the town. •fiwre the hirl has been perched since October it, cid has never icon seen te move during the day. time. but it is thought to visit the Trent for food And wattr in the early morning.  is not generally known, saye the keko, that Mr. Raymond Hlathwayt, who has so successfully I.l4velowil the American plan of interviewing popular people, wai former') a curate at Wocd• ouroOgh, near Marlborough. Apparently, though lie :,1% devoted liiturflf to literary and j work, he has not rei.ounced his clerical o it, tw his name ap*a, o this year's Clergy I. though not as liolhi ahy preferment. ..r,,,nk to o, owy W 7•11 thine ice," Lang t!:e folio, iron in he hot IV,Pthf't.  ver.ed I,recpde,er.—`. they husband aed •,:• " " N,; rt, '1  Frti xv:k:1!1 k:.•• : may one be tat., ft—, yet  11,-re'a cur thi, rs be F.aid in looms of et,. nier. the Ili:A N miler friend, than In win•rr. Pri.ontv. you have been convicted several ti 9 for ." "Yes, your honour; but only in me o