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Show TRAVELER SHOT FOR DECLINING CANNIBALS MEAL Wovnded for Refuting Sep-per Sep-per After Seeing Man Cot Up. Cope Town. Mow hit bead bad been ripped open by an assegul in ihe (Southern Soudan, how he wut hunted by eunnlliult and wounded with I heir poisoned arrow In the forest of the Upper Con so and bltlen by a munih In KhodeKla wot related by I'rof. G. Seubrlt g, F. It. Q. S-. when he arrived here a few dnyt ago. He left Alexandria Alex-andria on foot lu September, '.)Z, and silent the Interval walking over the eastern bnlf of Africa. The main object of I'rofetisor 8eu-hrHig't 8eu-hrHig't travel Is to amass geographical geograph-ical and anthropological Information The African continent Is still until-cently until-cently "dark' to make this a distinct-ly distinct-ly adventurous business. Just before the professor came among the cannibalistic Nlum Nlatn tribe In the Uper Congo a girl hnd I mysteriously died. The day of his arrival was the very one which had beep set for the execution of tht man who waa believed to have compassed the glrl'e death by witchcraft Politely Declined. The professor saw the man killed and cut up Into fragments. Later he received an official Invitation to supper. sup-per. Knowing enough of the tribal habits to guess what the main dish would be, he politely declined. Thlt the Nlam-Mam took as mi Insult, In-sult, and at dusk they surrounded his tent and shot at him with poisoned Saw tht Man Killed and Cut Up Into Fragments. arrows, one of which went through his leg. He retaliated with some shots from his rille, a weupon so new to them that they hastily Increased the range by a general dispersal. The professor seized the breathing space to make off with a few retainers retain-ers to a neighboring village, where he lay for a month between life and death. In Ihe Sudan also he was attacked by natives for unwittingly huntlns crocodile In the native preserve. On that occasion he was bit on the head by a flying assegai and two of his native followers were killed. Laid Low by Disease. . In addition to his niamba bite which he cured by a method, the sue cess of which Is said to have sur prised experts greatly, he has period lea My been laid low with malaria, tick fever and even with sleeping sickness. From the last lie recovered after some Injections of Beyer 205 given hi in by a mission In Tanganyika. . The professor, who has hud experience experi-ence both of multitude and solitude, much prefers the latter. On his trav- els he feels no need of more com panlonsbip than his few books can 'provide. A Hollander by birth, he Is familiar with eleven languages, and his traveling library Includes, In the originals, such diverse works as. the lniltatio ChrlstI, the Koran, Dante. ' Wordsworth and Julius Caesar. J He proposes to visit America and hopes to give lectures on his adventures. |