Cannibalism Discovered Among Islands Off New Guinea
Real cannibals have been discovered by missionaries on the islands of New Britain and New Ireland, off the northeast coast of New Guinea. These natives are nude savages of the Oriental negro type, who live more like beasts than human beings. The Rev. George Brown, a Wesleyan missionary, reports that he saw women roasting the leg and thigh of a man who had been killed in a fight. In another hut smoke-dried human flesh was hanging. In another he counted thirty-five jaw bones of men and women. Cannibalism seemed to be common throughout the islands, not as a religious rite, but as an ordinary means of subsistence.—Religious Intelligencer.