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Show Dreadful Burial Ceremony. A Swiss traveler, Paul Ilrun, who 1 hns returned rrom two nnd n halt years' travels nmong tho savogo tribes ot tho Congo, describes in his recently published Journal tho dreadful burial ceremony of a chief of tho man-entlng Dnkcto. The body Is sot In a chnmbor hollowed In tho sldo ot a deep ditch, Into which young girls are thrown, their nnns and legs broken with n club. In tho.tomb with tho chief are goats and fowls, together with his wenpons, nnd especially his gun, which Is broken to savo It trom theft. Tho earth Is then filled In, and his wives nnd slaves aro slain over tho gravo. |