Show FIFTEEN MONTHS WITH CAN N I BAlS REV NEVILLE ONLY SURVIVOR OF MISSIONARY PARTY WHICH WENT TO NEW GUINEA SAVAGES ATTACK SETTLEMENT Was Overlooked When His Corv pan Ion Were Butchered and Devoured De-voured Finally Rescued by Dutch Sailors Now Albany mlAs one of the Indiana In-diana delegates told the Past Anglican church conference at Westmtnster Abbey Ab-bey London Now Albany will send Rev Edmund A Neville rector of St Pauls Episcopal church Rev Neville is a native of Melbourne Australia and although still n young man ho has traveled in all parts of tho globe and at one tlmo was a captive for 15 months of cannibals on the Island of Now Guinea northwest of Australia near tho equator In 1892 he joined an English party consisting of six young missionaries and a number of converted South Sea Islanders which sailed from Australia for New Guinea and after reaching the Island steamed in a launch up Fly river to an unexplored region COO miles from Its mouth They constructed their thatched huts and had settled down for their work among the natives when they were attacked one night by the savage band and the settlement was wiped out Dr Neville being the only survivor sur-vivor of the party The others were butchered as they nlcpt and Dr Ncwlllo attributes his escape from death to the fact that ho was sleeping In a hut apart from the others and was not discovered until the lust for blood had been satisfied The bodies of his companions were roasted in great fires of wood and they were devoured by the hundred or more savages while ho was compelled to stand by and witness the hideous orgy After the feast which lasted for several days the band resumed Its march from the smoking ruins of the settlement with the lone captive who expected to bo killed at any moment and meet the fato of his friends Far in the jungle the band finally reached a village where Dr Neville fell ill of fever The white man the t d f L v a rr C e Dl 4 a I I They Roasted the Bodies on Great Fires of Wood first they had ever seen was a sourco of wonder to tho women and children and they exhibited a sort of rude tenderness I ten-derness toward the prisoner and satis lied his wants as well as they could bo understood Ho was unconscious for I days and finally ho began gaining sufficient suf-ficient strength to walk about his hut I and he discovered that the savages had carried him across the Island and that their village was on the oceans shore Ho determined to keep the good will of the band until euch time as an opportunity op-portunity might be afforded to escape es-cape to a passing ship Fifteen months passed and one day ho sat on the beach in his tattered pajamas and a straw hat the only articles of clothing ho had been allowed to bring with him Into captivity when a ship appeared In the ofllug A steam launch carrying a number of armed sailors came ashore and began distributing beads and mirrors among the savages Dr Neville was Informed that they were from a Dutch gunboat which had been sent out In search of the missionary mis-sionary party At a favorable opportunity oppor-tunity he was separated from the blacks leaped Into the launch which put back to tho vessel and he was rescued During the months ho was In captivity captivi-ty he noted down in a book such cannibal can-nibal words as he learned using a burned stick to make tho characters and in time he had a list of several hundred words and phrases which have since been published as a dictionary dic-tionary and have been of great use to missionaries After he had fully recovered re-covered from his adventure Dr Neville Nev-ille went to Oxford where he finished hIs studies and later engaged in missionary mis-sionary work In China Japan Singapore Singa-pore and Central America Ho camo to Canada and crossed to the United States at Niagara falls and ho has held parishes In Pennsylvania Texas Louisiana Mississippi Colorado and Missouri coming from Sedalla Mo to this city a year ago I |