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Show IiCXTEKS FOB HE1BS. JUf KOUCCSTCH Q SOUOa(02C I5LA3.DKR3. CASIBAUSX c-iytnos AliOSO TUE NATIVE. r AmcEg Uie iKfcengrs that arrived ar-rived liy the fcli-amw Mccrgpota on ialurday last km a gt-uUrtuau nameii Walion. Mr. Watsoa is now en route to Kugland and lia tieen for mauy yean engaged In tradlDg among the South Sea islicderg for copra, pearl hhella and vUier commodities. He told some strange atorlra to a Giromcle reporter eateruay about lieaJ uuiillnK anu cannlbaliom that Mill prevail la the Solomon Islands. 'I first went to the Solomon group ss a trailer lor u rjyunejr firm, aim navIng nikd the positions of store-treeper store-treeper and lamlowniT for teven years known tlieee natlvis well. My drst visit was to the island of Iiango. Soon after weanchcied some uativts came oil and named us that the people on slioru wanted to kill (he lint white wan ttey could. Upon teingqucationcd he stated that some yiars sgo a trader ha J Wva killed y them, snd a man of war Iiad appeared ap-peared exactitig a heavy flue of pigs Old otllir ItllLKf. 'lilt! War rea-e nsd leu piloted by a white man and the natives had resolved to kill the pilot, aud failing to Mil him ihey intended to lake the lifo of the rlrct white niau on whom they could lay tliclr hand?, 1 found out that the natives were well armed and left tho pit te. as Uio asuind of Itutiana simllai mditlons prtrail. While we wen t Baruhattau we had a narrow et-ape. et-ape. Among tho natives win ame on board were two chiefs Tney flnkhed trading aud I notlcet hey kept cloeo to the rudder truul f the vessel. I dUcovered a tantu ndcr tbu ttern, wllh natives pass eg up axe?, and as there were ov-i evenly natives on board the ship th-y fully Intended to capture us Jur crew s'jon get out their arms md tbc scoundrels, seeing tliat we were determined, left the vessel. Treadicry Is ti.'e, and no white arm's life is ufearuang tbtm, their utmost desire being to secure heads. On Bagga Island they killed, roasted AlllLllUltU 1MUIU1 VUllUtT, Mil ived tliere. X tlilnk he wosaruiis .ay from some American whaler md hil 11 v. .) nn the Islaud for ovei twenty years." ik mu,c. Mr. Wabon waa prts- ) .i ulieu tliu taptaiu of tLeUat ip UamOKcf visited the Msndi ix i-'isons landtd and there wer rr fifty natives in ambush al rmed ith guns, ready to maisacr . wbltu men If tbe opportunity uOVre I. . Iteldhe to the practice of bear! MUlill; Itie ( AflyMC6JS IUIUIIUnIi ates that the natives go from islam island in search for tho prize 'atching their chances. Tbe beaiii re ued at tbe deatb of a cbief oi it a canoe launching. As niauy as five heads planted round the grave f a chief isuppoted to appease tbe viliint tbat caused tbe death, rhile at a canoo launrbing the ueasure of luck that is in store fo: tbe crtft U according to the iiurcbc! f heads tiiatauuru tliu tmiullic -nters the water. Mr. Watson is of Hie opinion tbat jo one ought to land on these islands is-lands without tiling armed. The custom of the British warshijM to Je:troy villageo, blow up canoes and 1 c BUeit v.l Ulu llUuMS 1 Ol 1( e, as it nuij embitters the native. rslntt tbe whites. The best punishment in the opin nof si the nhlte traJtrs is for th-arsliips th-arsliips to seize tho chiefs and de urt thtrn to distant islands. |