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Show EATEN BY CANNIBAL Horrible Story of Savagery From Sovth Seas. Bushmen from Cape Oxford, accord-ng accord-ng to a letter received by theMiowera, from Sydney, were killed and eaten by :annibals on the coast of New Britain. The German government is taking iteps to punish the cannibals. The natives who were made victims, lad been trading, and when they got to the landing the canoes they were in jvere fired at and at once sunk. Many ivere killed and their bodies carried ishore. But the most horrifying pait tvas when several men were captured llive and dragged to the actual scene Df the feast their bodies were to provide. pro-vide. They were clubbed and afterward after-ward roasted or baked tnd eaten. This tribe of native ghouls is one of the most notorious in the islands for man-eating. They are not head-buuters, head-buuters, in the Solomon islands sense af the term, but bloodthirsty Kanakas, tvho kill for food solely. The victims were not all killed at once, some of them witnessed the killing kill-ing of their comrades and the first part of the cannibal feast. |