Show aman BEINGS KILLED AND EATEN terrible atrocities revealed by a explorer in africa the accounts riven given bv the belgian belgia n ex clorer plo rerI F do demeuse aleuse of the state of affair affairs on the upper reaches of the congo show allow t that hat at atrocities ro ties and cannibalism s m of tho the most terrible nature are practiced there still during the three years and it ree months 11 II dell de mease cuse was tra velling in the country says the li liverpool mercury be everywhere saw that human life wa ws 7 held in the lightest possible regard indeed human beairs both men and women were for sale being in in every village for the purpose of lih being g killed and eaten iho r 0 in individuals dividu t t Is who were slaves ap feared indifferent n as to their fate they pen invariably had a fo fork rk like branch of a iree tree tie tied abou arou around n their necks which prevented their lir walking cabout purchasers lur chasers conid could come and select which part of the living man flash they would buy and when the poor fellow follow was killed kilted t he tie flesh I 1 indicated adie abed wai was apportioned portioned out this practice pro pre vallain availed in every village and tom toni toms were sounded so to t tell cl eo eople alc plc of the ap preaching rose hin g slaughter ahe h e victim sat down own with the tree branch around his neck and was generally ene rally killed by a sharp inspru ment beine being thrust into his side near the ho heart C cannibalism a was practiced throughout t the be w whole hole district and in his three thre eyears years travels 11 do mease went from matildi fat idi past stanley falls the bands of slaves organized by the tile arabs wherever there was a scarcity of rice or other food sub buh slated on their fellow creatures this this was earned carried to such a point that after a fight the tile natives would whip out their knives a and nd acas cut pieces of flesh from an any of their comrades com who had fallen M A de e said it would be no advantage buying one of these men waiting to be slang hered ered for food as with the proceeds Is of hie sale the owner would be able to buy say two or three more so that in saving one life three others world would be sacrificed scarcely v a week passed during 31 de do meuse s journey but he had to fight with the natives whose weapons were arrows on one occa occasion doche be lost till thirty 11 fie five of his of fifty and had to all lall back on a largo large arab A rab village for safety M de meuse ieuse came on the railway to matial it is about twenty miles in length and the moat most difficult part of the tile work has been completed M de mouse se ex expected acted great results to civilize civi civilization liza ti on a and t trade from the railway in question lie ile calculated it would take three generations to lapse after the introduction oi of civilization bo fore cannibalism could hope to be aradi bated |