Show BURIED IT LIST uw how cheop coad bones were dis poil or in africa I 1 STANDARD special F CAron icis service lct I 1 los londo DOS oct 9 A remarkable story comes from victoria nyanza of the recovery of tho the body of 0 bishop cannington nann ington who was killed by natives on tha northeast boist ot tho lake several years ago his ilis bones have recent recently y come into the possession of mr Jackson agent of tho the british east africa company it is suppo ed that they havo have been buried near tho the shores of the great lake the day that bishop met his death froin from a spear thrust from a crowd of that surrounded him I 1 ilia I 1 is body was taken out of the district where the tragedy occurred for far people feared that the corpse of a white man in their land would bring evil upon them they took it to a neighboring district where the people at also objected abject ed to receiving it and eo it was carried from place to place e each ach little tribe refusing to p permit e rm i t the he dead mans bones to rest in their country in its journey from place to place al alone ong the lakeshore lake shore a aitman co who had been porter in bishop family accompanied the body when at last tha the body reached a considerable distance north of the place where the bishops party was massacred the people of that region agreed to permit it to rest there on condition that the remain and take care of it so they built above ground a framework such as all they use for brooking smoking meat and fish and on t this his platform the body was placed the people gave the bishops porter bis hie food to stay near the platform and keep wild beasts and birds of prey away from it early this year a marko messenger sent from king mwanza to sir mr johnson passed through the region where the bishops Bie hopa banes bones exposed to the all air were 1 ing on the platform lleti he told pe laople ople he would dispose of the bonea bones for hem them by taking alens to white men if it mr johnson would oil give i his consent thug thus in a few years after the terrible tragedy occurred a white man who reached victoria nyanza by the very route which the bishop lost his life in an effort to 0 open no was the means of giving the br bishops shops bones a decent burial buried |