Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — FIFTY NATIVES EATEN [ARTICLE]

FIFTY NATIVES EATEN

An Awful Story of Cannibalism in Africa, Advices just received from Stanley Falls; in the Congo Free State, tell of cannibalism among the natives and of unarmed expedition against them. Natives along the Lomani river, who blocked the stream with hundreds of armed canoes, killed and ate fifty natives friendly to Europeans. An expedition consisting of ten Europeans and fifty Arabs soon after left Stanley Palls to punish the cannibals, and after a day’s battle succeeded in routing them and occupying their villages. Hundreds of the rebellious natives were killed and wounded. The same advices also state that the Bakumas around Stanley Falls are returning cannibalism and that several of them have been courtmartialed and executed.