Show SLAYERS OF THE AUSTRIANS the savage islanders who drought brought a Se scientific leattle party to grief A few years ago the english and 1 the germans divided the beautiful group of 0 tho the solomon islands between t themselves ace em and then looked around to see it f their new acquisition wa wall i re really oly worth anything they decided that the islands were lovely to the eye and good enough to keep but that the natives were tho the wildest wildcat and most moat untamable savages savage i they had ever met it was all a mans lle life was worth to venture arnon among g t them hern A gunboat or two has been kept in tho the neighborhood ot of late years but this has not prevented these head hunters and cannibals from lopping off a white mans head on oil every convenient occa lion blon the scene of 0 the latest native exploit la Is the large island ot of Guadal guadalcazar guadalcanal canar several members of an austrian salen title expedition while climbing the mountain known as 03 the lions head early la in august last were attacked by the bubil bushmen men or inland natives five 0 ot f the party were killed and six were wounded including two guides said and some homo sailors Bai lors A simultaneous attack was M as ma made de upon the climbers and the small party they had left in camp below of 0 course the natives were no ia a match 1 tell tor for guns and they s soon oon driven into the bush but not becom I 1 hey had inflicted ble loss among the killed was baron von norbeck tho the lions head Is in the very heaxt heart ot of the island being almost equi dystant between the sides and ends of 0 guadal canar canal no white roan man lad ever pene the interior before except mr air C 31 woodford and he went only about fifteen miles inland ascending the aola liver then he fie had to turn back tor for excellent reasons in which the natives were concerned but wo we must n not ot torget forget poor benjamin boyd who disappeared among the coast woods and was wag never seen again it Is sald said that this well to do briton intended to declare the island annexed to ills country countr Y on oil the strength ot of his landing there at any rate he landed with his shotgun and said he was going to shoot ft a ml mess ess ot of pigeons and that was v ae tile the last that was ever been of poor ben belt boyd for some years presents were made to the coast natives marked B and ben boyd we ate aie looking tor for you but nothing was ever heard ot of lits his fate THE ISLAND Is about eighty miles long and forty wid and it Is one of 0 the southern solomons lit in the british territory tory A largo large map has been made ot of it chiefly adlitte tor for all that it shows la is the coasts tho the mouths ot of the rivers the mountains that can be seen front from the sea am and the two little rivers that woodford Wood tord I 1 lias As explored all the rest Is blank lions head Is ia a prominent feature and it Is estimated to bo be SOW feet high lit in mr woodnoid Wood foid attempted to reach lions hrad head but was prevented by tile tho hostility ot of these mountain it tilbee itice v who he have brought ohp austrian party to grief and by the timidity of 0 ills his guides but lie he lived six months among the coast natives at the little town of by means of 0 most liberal presents he made friends with tho the natives there they never stole anything from his hut hill and he often induced them to accompany him on small into the th country the people living alv inland usually ran into tho the bush when athen they saw him coming but their fears were allayed ayed by his native friends NN who he would shout that he was a good white while man who bought butter tiles files birds snakes anti and stone axes and measured the water but the people of 0 the mountains still further inland could not be molli mollified fled and all ills attempts to reach lions ions I head and the still higher mount mountain min of lammas resulted in failure the further he and hla big coast natives went up tho the river aola tit in their canoes the more timid his escort became they rounded every bend in the river with spears poised and keeping a a good lookout any white man maji on the coasts of 0 the solomon group must be constantly on his guard it he attempts to go inland and ascend a mountain his life Is hardly worth purchasing even though a man ma n ci of f war may be lying in a neighboring harbor ready to burn a dozen villages if any harm Is done this Is the alie mistake the austrian party made the natives are very superstitious bout about the mountain topi some dread object a huge fish or clam or a devil always lives there and woe will betide tile alio whole island it if his big peace Is disturbed tiao years ago 9 party from the british surveying ship penguin a attempted to visit a commanding mountain in the new georgia ot of the solomons but the natives became so excited that they desisted resisted des isted before the summit was reached cannibalism Is very common and bodies are hawked about tor for sale sal e from town to town not a few wh white it traders and natives coming to tho the solomon islands on vessels have bee been rl killed solely for their heads tor for all these natives like many other savages ravages in tho the pacific regard Is a collection of 0 human heads as a treasure beyond price men of war always visit the coast after these murders but they are usually unable to capture the culprits as the natives invariably retire into tho the bu bush 9 h when they see a worship warship coming A while ago the english ln glish did catch one of ol 01 the murde iera they go got t together a large crowd of the natives and most impressively shot tho the criminal but no 0 deep moral effect teems seems to have been produced in 1888 1838 mr air woodford Wood tord again visited the islands and again he failed to reach the mountains of guadalcazar Guadal canar the austrians Aust lans rians reached reache d the mountains but paid a terrible price ce tor for it so these islands discovered by the Spa spanish nirh more than years ago are still almost a as 3 little known excepting their coast lines as the antarctic continent it is 13 probable some of the natives wll mill be made to sulter suffer for this massacre of the whites though it Is more than likely that the real offenders will escape with whole skins skills new york sun |