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Show Won t uajwomln. HmI I tniil.n (annllmlt Itrs.rl III. S.t u jHjiH tiflr.n Inlin.li. LH Down In the darkest I era, over an HaBI outlying eastern rllge of the Andes, LbHsi toward tho very unsettled boundary H line of llraill nnd Hollvla a flourish- Ing rnco of cannibalistic Indiana can H bo fuun I They are so fierce nnd un- H appronchal le that few mltslonarlea or H explorers have over felt eourngn enough H to guarantee nn) thing llko a clout H study nf their eccentricities. It wan H nn Hnglkiliwomnn who recently H brought homo n holograph of ono ot H tho women ot a cannibal tribe, and H though full of engcrneu to know more H of theso poo pic sho wna persuaded to H forego Investigation Tho civilised In- H illans regard them with a horror that H oni) cnnnlbnllsm ran Insplro and only H nt long Intervale have the white real- H denM ot Peru seen or cniturcd nny ot H the Casclbna who rnnge tho foreats H whe'o tho precious Peruvian bark It H found nnd who fight each other In tho H hopo of icottrlng prltnnrri for a can- H nlballstio orgle Hut thero Is a queer H codo In their savngo law They make H no effort to selxe women for their H feasts Tho very degradation of the sex H la In a way Its preservation Tho mala H onto or Casclbo regards a woman as an H Impuro being She Ii a necessary tor- H ment, but by no metm a comfort, H though iho accept her share ot duty, H and a cannibal brave would well nigh H lcrlih of starvation before ho would LsxH pollute bbi lips with femato flesh Not aaLftc: only Is a woman thus despised hut H her blood Is feared ni a poison, from H the taste ot which no man could recov- H er Tho cannibal women prnfcM no H such dlslasta for man 1 flesh but nro H said tn eat It with rcltth while In their H own turn they have evidently taken no H nctlvo slept to convlnco tho men H ngnlmt their nnclent error and preju H dlco. Washington Times H |