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Show PRACTICE CANNIBALISM III THE ARCTIC REGIONS Some Horrible Stories Which Come From Chukchls, a Remote Portion Por-tion of Russia In Asia. St. Petersburg. Horrlblo accounts tore reaching St. Petersburg of cannl-liallsm cannl-liallsm and starvation among tribes Inhabiting In-habiting tho Arctic plain of Chukchls peninsula, at the extremity of Asln. Most of the reindeer died of starvation during tho winter of 1901-05, leaving tho Inhabitants without means of communication com-munication or food. During the Inst wlnfor wholo tribes have died and mcmbors of tho Omolons nnd Ololya tribes, when facing starvation, assembled assem-bled In council nnd decided that nothing noth-ing rcmnlncd but death. Thoy agreed that each head of a family should kill his wlfo nnd children chil-dren nnd then commit suicide. Tho tribesmen gathered on a plateau covered cov-ered with snow and Ice, nnd In tho darkness of tho Arctic winter the Spnri tan decision was executed, not a single sin-gle member of the two tribes surviving. surviv-ing. More revolting still Is tho story of what occurred In n family of tho Yu-kohlr Yu-kohlr tribe. A mother nnd nlno of her children having died of hunger, tho father, a surviving daughter and a nephew lived upon tho remains, nnd when they wero consumed tho father murdered tho nephew. A Russian named Dolganoff, who went to tho region re-gion to buy furs, reported tho situation nt Yakutsk, Siberia. He entered a Ifcnow hut of n Yuknhlr family whllo tho latter wcro eating tho head of a murdered relative. |