Show A RACE OF dipsomaniacs DIPSOMANIA CS BOOBIES DYING OF DRINK neuters representative reports an interview inith lieutenant boyd alexander kifle brigade who has just reached england on the conclusion ot an interesting expedition over the little spanish island of I po although lying within a few miles of the iger coast and in the direct track of steamers the island is practically unknown except tor a narrow cultivated bek around the coast of the natives of tho island boyd alexander says they are a curious and timid race quite unlike anything I 1 have seen on the west coast and ot an extremely low type except for the purpose of going out on organized drinking bauts many of them never leave their primitive dwellings among the rocks and generally speaking they have never before seen a white roan they are known as boobies they are of poor physique and are in fact dying of palm wine and rum usually they are quite naked except for a curious straw bonnet which they wear some however add to this a scanty loin cloth they make themselves more hideous than they would otherwise be by painting their bodies with colored mud ana ft plaster of this mixture which is bright red on the lower art of the face yen ders chein particularly unattractive as unspeakable they never but to their arms is attached by means of a hempen band a knife they use to scrape off the filth in which they arc encased they manage too to induce deformities by winding tightly round the upper arms and below tho anco strong woven bands they arc exceedingly timid and often when they caught siant 0 my party coming up a narrow track they would rush into the depth of the forest and set up a weird and fearsome wail in which their dogs joined to keep a boobie away from his palm wine is to taake him a wretched being at certain hours in the day their little village would be quite deserted everyone including the little children having gone off with their calabashes cal abashes on a carouse this is practically all they live for they believe in an evil spirit to propitiate which they make a juju of small pieces ot rotten wood these they plant at certain specified places and anyone touching them is supposed to sicken and die although I 1 carefully searched the island I 1 could find no traces of their burial places boyd alexander secured nearly specimens of birds thirty six ot which are new to science lie states as a curious fact that the birds mammals and plants are for the most part quite unlike the west african forms but are similar to those found on the side 0 the continent |