Show human man sacrifice flee still prevalent in new guinea sacrifice of human beings to propitiate Q the spirits of wind and water was w witnessed nesse by y a r t a patrol officer in according to his report recently submitted in port moresby the government lias r dered that the rite cease the officer said sald the rite Is traditional the v victim may be either cither a man or a I 1 woman ond Is always a member of another tribe found alone in the gw amite to the accompaniment of ing and the beating of drams adrams tho the vict victim irin Is killed and the body cut up ath with full ceremony some parts of the body are eaten others are preserved as trophies the upper part of the skull Is retained by tho the ch chief ef and the lower jawbone w one Is 9 tho the perquisite of his second in command with these trophies slung on cords round the necks of their lenders leaders the raiders believe they cannot lose |